Design and performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope camera

Colin B. Adams; Giovanni Ambrosi; Michelangelo Ambrosio; Carla Aramo; Timothy Arlen; Wystan Benbow; Bruna Bertucci; Elisabetta Bissaldi; Jonathan Biteau; Massimiliano Bitossi; Alfonso Boiano; Carmela Bonavolontà; Richard Bose; Aurelien Bouvier; Mario Buscemi; Aryeh Brill; Anthony M. Brown; James H. Buckley; Rodolfo Canestrari; Massimo Capasso; Mirco Caprai; Paolo Coppi; Corbin E. Covault; Davide Depaoli; Leonardo Di Venere; Manel Errando; Stephan Fegan; Qi Feng; Emanuele Fiandrini; Amy Furniss; Markus Garczarczyk; Alasdair Gent; Nicola Giglietto; Francesco Giordano; Enrico Giro; Robert Halliday; Olivier Hervet; Gareth Hughes; Simone Incardona; Thomas B. Humensky; Maria Ionica; Weidong Jin; Caitlin A. Johnson; David Kieda; Frank Krennrich; Andrey Kuznetsov; Jon Lapington; Francesco Licciulli; Serena Loporchio; Giovanni Marsella; Vincenzo Masone; Kevin Meagher; Thomas Meures; Brent A.W. Mode; Samuel A.I. Mognet; Reshmi Mukherjee; Akira Okumura; Francesca R. Pantaleo; Riccardo Paoletti; Federico Di Pierro; Deivid Ribeiro; Luca Riitano; Emmet Roache; Duncan Ross; Julien Rousselle; Andrea Rugliancich; Marcos Santander; Michael Schneider; Harm Schoorlemmer; Ruo Yu Shang; Brandon Stevenson; Leonardo Stiaccini; Hiroyasu Tajima; Leslie P. Taylor; Julian Thornhill; Luca Tosti; Giovanni Tripodo; Valerio Vagelli; Massimo Valentino; Justin Vandenbroucke; Vladimir V. Vassiliev; Scott P. Wakely; Jason J. Watson; Richard White; Patrick Wilcox; David A. Williams; Matthew Wood; Peter Yu; Adrian Zink

doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.014007

Design and performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope camera

Colin B. Adams, Giovanni Ambrosi, Michelangelo Ambrosio, Carla Aramo, Timothy Arlen, Wystan Benbow, Bruna Bertucci, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Jonathan Biteau, Massimiliano Bitossi, Alfonso Boiano, Carmela Bonavolontà, Richard Bose, Aurelien Bouvier, Mario Buscemi, Aryeh Brill, Anthony M. Brown, James H. Buckley, Rodolfo Canestrari, Massimo CapassoMirco Caprai, Paolo Coppi, Corbin E. Covault, Davide Depaoli, Leonardo Di Venere, Manel Errando, Stephan Fegan, Qi Feng, Emanuele Fiandrini, Amy Furniss, Markus Garczarczyk, Alasdair Gent, Nicola Giglietto, Francesco Giordano, Enrico Giro, Robert Halliday, Olivier Hervet, Gareth Hughes, Simone Incardona, Thomas B. Humensky, Maria Ionica, Weidong Jin, Caitlin A. Johnson, David Kieda, Frank Krennrich, Andrey Kuznetsov, Jon Lapington, Francesco Licciulli, Serena Loporchio, Giovanni Marsella, Vincenzo Masone, Kevin Meagher, Thomas Meures, Brent A.W. Mode, Samuel A.I. Mognet, Reshmi Mukherjee, Akira Okumura, Francesca R. Pantaleo, Riccardo Paoletti, Federico Di Pierro, Deivid Ribeiro, Luca Riitano, Emmet Roache, Duncan Ross, Julien Rousselle, Andrea Rugliancich, Marcos Santander, Michael Schneider, Harm Schoorlemmer, Ruo Yu Shang, Brandon Stevenson, Leonardo Stiaccini, Hiroyasu Tajima, Leslie P. Taylor, Julian Thornhill, Luca Tosti, Giovanni Tripodo, Valerio Vagelli, Massimo Valentino, Justin Vandenbroucke, Vladimir V. Vassiliev, Scott P. Wakely, Jason J. Watson, Richard White, Patrick Wilcox, David A. Williams, Matthew Wood, Peter Yu, Adrian Zink

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	014007
Journal	Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.014007
State	Published - Jan 1 2022

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Control and Systems Engineering
Instrumentation
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mechanical Engineering
Space and Planetary Science

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Adams, C. B., Ambrosi, G., Ambrosio, M., Aramo, C., Arlen, T., Benbow, W., Bertucci, B., Bissaldi, E., Biteau, J., Bitossi, M., Boiano, A., Bonavolontà, C., Bose, R., Bouvier, A., Buscemi, M., Brill, A., Brown, A. M., Buckley, J. H., Canestrari, R., ... Zink, A. (2022). Design and performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope camera. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 8(1), Article 014007. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.014007

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