Design and performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope camera
Date Issued
2022
Author(s)
Adams, Colin B.
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Ambrosi, Giovanni
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Ambrosio, Michelangelo
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Aramo, Carla
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Arlen, Timothy
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Benbow, Wystan
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Bertucci, Bruna
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Bissaldi, Elisabetta
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Biteau, Jonathan
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Bitossi, Massimiliano
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Boiano, Alfonso
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Bonavolontà, Carmela
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Bose, Richard
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Bouvier, Aurelien
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Buscemi, Mario
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Brill, Aryeh
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Brown, Anthony M.
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Buckley, James H.
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Capasso, Massimo
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Caprai, Mirco
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Coppi, Paolo
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Covault, Corbin E.
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Di Venere, Leonardo
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Errando, Manel
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Fegan, Stephan
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Feng, Qi
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Fiandrini, Emanuele
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Furniss, Amy
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Garczarczyk, Markus
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Gent, Alasdair
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Giglietto, Nicola
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Giordano, Francesco
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Halliday, Robert
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Hervet, Olivier
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Hughes, Gareth
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Incardona, Simone
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Humensky, Thomas B.
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Ionica, Maria
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Jin, Weidong
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Johnson, Caitlin A.
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Kieda, David
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Krennrich, Frank
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Kuznetsov, Andrey
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Lapington, Jon
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Licciulli, Francesco
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Loporchio, Serena
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Marsella, Giovanni
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Masone, Vincenzo
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Meagher, Kevin
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Meures, Thomas
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Mode, Brent A. W.
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Mognet, Samuel A. I.
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Mukherjee, Reshmi
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Okumura, Akira
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Pantaleo, Francesca R.
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Paoletti, Riccardo
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Di Pierro, Federico
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Ribeiro, Deivid
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Riitano, Luca
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Roache, Emmet
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Ross, Duncan
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Rousselle, Julien
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Rugliancich, Andrea
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Santander, Marcos
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Schneider, Michael
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Schoorlemmer, Harm
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Shang, Ruo-Yu
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Stevenson, Brandon
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Stiaccini, Leonardo
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Tajima, Hiroyasu
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Taylor, Leslie P.
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Thornhill, Julian
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Tosti, Luca
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Vagelli, Valerio
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Valentino, Massimo
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Vandenbroucke, Justin
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Vassiliev, Vladimir V.
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Wakely, Scott P.
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Watson, Jason J.
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White, Richard
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Wilcox, Patrick
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Williams, David A.
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Wood, Matthew
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Yu, Peter
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Zink, Adrian
Abstract
The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is a candidate for a medium-sized telescope in the Cherenkov Telescope Array. The pSCT is based on a dual-mirror optics design that reduces the plate scale and allows for the use of silicon photomultipliers as photodetectors. The prototype pSCT camera currently has only the central sector instrumented with 25 camera modules (1600 pixels), providing a 2.68-deg field of view (FoV). The camera electronics are based on custom TARGET (TeV array readout with GSa/s sampling and event trigger) application-specific integrated circuits. Field programmable gate arrays sample incoming signals at a gigasample per second. A single backplane provides camera-wide triggers. An upgrade of the pSCT camera that will fully populate the focal plane is in progress. This will increase the number of pixels to 11,328, the number of backplanes to 9, and the FoV to 8.04 deg. Here, we give a detailed description of the pSCT camera, including the basic concept, mechanical design, detectors, electronics, current status, and first light....
Volume
8
Issue
01
Issn Identifier
2329-4124
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