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The GCT camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Brown, A.M.; Abchiche, A.; Allan, D.; Amans, J.-P.; Armstrong, T.P.; Balzer, A.; Berge, D.; Boisson, C.; Bousquet, J.-J.; Bryan, M.; Buchholtz, G.; Chadwick, P.M.; Costantini, H.; Cotter, G.; Daniel, M.K.; De Franco, A.; de Frondat, F.; Dournaux, J.-L.; Dumas, D.; Fasola, G.; Funk, S.; Gironnet, J.; Graham, J.A.; Greenshaw, T.; Hervet, O.; Hidaka, N.; Hinton, J.A.; Huet, J.-M.; Jégouzo, I.; Jogler, T.; Kraus, M.; Lapington, J.S.; Laporte, P.; Lefaucheur, J.; Markoff, S.; Melse, T.; Mohrmann, L.; Molyneux, P.; Nolan, S.J.; Okumura, A.; Osborne, J.P.; Parsons, R.D.; Rosen, S.; Ross, D.; Rowell, G.; Sato, Y.; Sayede, F.; Schmoll, J.; Schoorlemmer, H.; Servillat, M.; Sol, H.; Stamatescu, V.; Stephan, M.; Stuik, R.; Sykes, J.; Tajima, H.; Thornhill, J.; Tibaldo, L.; Trichard, C.; Vink, J.; Watson, J.J.; White, R.; Yamane, N.; Zech, A.; Zink, A.; Zorn, J.

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Authors

A. Abchiche

D. Allan

J.-P. Amans

T.P. Armstrong

A. Balzer

D. Berge

C. Boisson

J.-J. Bousquet

M. Bryan

G. Buchholtz

H. Costantini

G. Cotter

M.K. Daniel

A. De Franco

F. de Frondat

J.-L. Dournaux

D. Dumas

G. Fasola

S. Funk

J. Gironnet

J.A. Graham

T. Greenshaw

O. Hervet

N. Hidaka

J.A. Hinton

J.-M. Huet

I. Jégouzo

T. Jogler

M. Kraus

J.S. Lapington

P. Laporte

J. Lefaucheur

S. Markoff

T. Melse

L. Mohrmann

P. Molyneux

S.J. Nolan

A. Okumura

J.P. Osborne

R.D. Parsons

S. Rosen

D. Ross

G. Rowell

Y. Sato

F. Sayede

J. Schmoll

H. Schoorlemmer

M. Servillat

H. Sol

V. Stamatescu

M. Stephan

R. Stuik

J. Sykes

H. Tajima

J. Thornhill

L. Tibaldo

C. Trichard

J. Vink

J.J. Watson

R. White

N. Yamane

A. Zech

A. Zink

J. Zorn



Contributors

Helen J. Hall
Editor

Roberto Gilmozzi
Editor

Heather K. Marshall
Editor

Abstract

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is proposed for the Small-Sized Telescope component of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). GCT's dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) optical system allows the use of a compact camera with small form-factor photosensors. The GCT camera is ~ 0:4 m in diameter and has 2048 pixels; each pixel has a ~ 0:2° angular size, resulting in a wide field-of-view. The design of the GCT camera is high performance at low cost, with the camera housing 32 front-end electronics modules providing full waveform information for all of the camera's 2048 pixels. The first GCT camera prototype, CHEC-M, was commissioned during 2015, culminating in the first Cherenkov images recorded by a SC telescope and the first light of a CTA prototype. In this contribution we give a detailed description of the GCT camera and present preliminary results from CHEC-M's commissioning.

Citation

Brown, A., Abchiche, A., Allan, D., Amans, J., Armstrong, T., Balzer, A., …Zorn, J. (2016). The GCT camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. In H. J. Hall, R. Gilmozzi, & H. K. Marshall (Eds.), Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI : 26 June-1 July 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231685

Conference Name SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation
Conference Location Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Start Date Jun 26, 2023
End Date Jul 1, 2016
Online Publication Date Jul 27, 2016
Publication Date Jul 27, 2016
Deposit Date Nov 28, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher SPIE
Series Title Astronomy Group; Proceedings of SPIE
Series Number 9906
Book Title Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes VI : 26 June-1 July 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
DOI https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231685
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1149676

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Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VI, edited by Helen J. Hall, Roberto Gilmozzi, Heather K. Marshall, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9906, 99065K © 2016 SPIE





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