Dr Anthony Brown anthony.brown@durham.ac.uk
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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.
Authors
A. Abchiche
D. Allan
J.-P. Amans
T.P. Armstrong
A. Balzer
D. Berge
C. Boisson
J.-J. Bousquet
M. Bryan
G. Buchholtz
Professor Paula Chadwick p.m.chadwick@durham.ac.uk
Head Of Department
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 |
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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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