FlashCam: A fully digital camera for the Cherenkov telescope array medium-sized telescopes

Pühlhofer G, Barcelo M, Bauer C, Bi B, Catalano J, Diebold S, Eschbach S, Florin D, Foehr C, Funk S, Gadola A, Garrecht F, Hermann G, Jung I, Kalekin O, Kalkuhl C, Kihm T, Leuschner F, Mitchell A, Pfeifer M, Principe G, Pürckhauer S, Reimer O, Sailer S, Salzmann H, Santangelo A, Scalici M, Schanz T, Schwab T, Straumann U, Tenzer C, Vollhardt A, Werner F, Wolf D (2019)

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2019

Journal

Publisher: SPIE

Book Volume: 11119

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Event location: San Diego, CA

ISBN: 9781510629318

DOI: 10.1117/12.2531025

Abstract

FlashCam is an innovative camera designed for the focal plane instrumentation of Cherenkov telescopes. The concept of the FlashCam trigger and readout system is based on the continuous digitization and digital processing of the photo detector signals on FPGAs, and on a high performance, Ethernet-based front-end readout. Because of the modular design, the electronics that have been developed can serve either photomultiplier tubes or silicon-based photon detectors. In the framework of the CTA (Cherenkov telescope array) project, the FlashCam team has developed a PMT-based camera that is suitable for the medium-sized telescopes. With over 100 Cherenkov telescopes, the CTA observatory will run the most sensitive ground-based telescope systems for TeV gamma-ray astronomy when the two arrays in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere (with three different telescope sizes) will go into operation in the upcoming years.

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Involved external institutions

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany (DE) University of Zurich / Universität Zürich (UZH) Switzerland (CH) Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) / Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics Germany (DE) Medizinische Universität Innsbruck Austria (AT)

How to cite

APA:

Pühlhofer, G., Barcelo, M., Bauer, C., Bi, B., Catalano, J., Diebold, S.,... Wolf, D. (2019). FlashCam: A fully digital camera for the Cherenkov telescope array medium-sized telescopes. In Stephen L. O'Dell, Giovanni Pareschi (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. San Diego, CA, US: SPIE.

MLA:

Pühlhofer, G., et al. "FlashCam: A fully digital camera for the Cherenkov telescope array medium-sized telescopes." Proceedings of the Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy IX 2019, San Diego, CA Ed. Stephen L. O'Dell, Giovanni Pareschi, SPIE, 2019.

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