The SST-1M project for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Heller, M.; Samarai, I. Al; Alispach, Cyril Martin; Balbo, Matteo; Barbano, Anastasia Maria; Beshley, V.; Biland, A.; Blažek, Jiří; Błocki, J.; Borkowski, J.; Bulik, T.; Cadoux, F.; Chytka, L.; Coco, V.; Angelis, Nicolas De; Volpe, D. della; Favre, Y.; Gieras, Tomasz; Grudzińska, M.; Hamal, P.; Hrabovský, M.; Jurýšek, Jakub; Kasperek, J.; Koncewicz, Katarzyna; Kotarba, A.; Lyard, E.; Mach, E.; Mandát, Dušan; Michal, Stanislav; Michałowski, J.; Moderski, R.; Montaruli, T.; Nagai, A.; Neise, Dominik; Niemiec, J.; Ekoume, Theodore Rodrigue Njoh; Ostrowski, M.; Palatka, M.; Paśko, P.; Pech, M.; Pilszyk, Bartłomiej; Przybilski, Henry; Rajda, P.; Renier, Y.; Rozwadowski, Paweł; Schovánek, Petr; Seweryn, K.; Sliusar, Vitalii; Smakulska, Dorota; Sobczyńska, Dorota; Stawarz, Ł.; Świerblewski, Jacek; Świerk, Paweł; Trávničék, P.; Pujadas, I. Troyano; Walter, R.; Wiȩcek, M.; Zagdański, A.; Zietara, Krzystof; M, Cta Sst

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“…The SST-1M camera [6] is a SiPM-based Cherenkov camera for the SST-1M telescope [7]. It consists of 1296 hexagonal SiPMs from Hammamatsu (S10943-3739(X)) connected to a frontend electronics for signal shaping and amplification designed at the University of Geneva [8].…”

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Calibration and operation of SiPM-based cameras for gamma-ray astronomy in presence of high night-sky light

Alispach¹,

Samarai²,

Balbo³

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Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2019)

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“…During the 2018 operation of the telescope, high night-sky background conditions of 600 MHz on average per pixel were observed [7]. On top of the high night-sky background level, external parasitic light from the surrounding inhabited area perturbed the observations.…”

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Calibration and operation of SiPM-based cameras for gamma-ray astronomy in presence of high night-sky light

Alispach¹,

Samarai²,

Balbo³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2019)

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“…For the SST, three different proposals exist: a single mirror dish (SST-1M, [9]), with a prototype built in Krakow, Poland; a dual-mirror design dubbed GCT, with a prototype in Meudon, France; and a dual-mirror design dubbed ASTRI [10], with a prototype in Sicily, Italy. Compact SST cameras will be equipped with photosensors based on Silicon photomultipliers (see e.g.…”

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array

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2019

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. It will be capable of detecting gamma rays in the energy range from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV with unprecedented precision in energy and directional reconstruction. With more than 100 telescopes of three different types it will be located in the northern hemisphere at La Palma, Spain, and in the southern at Paranal, Chile. CTA will be one of the largest astronomical infrastructures in the world with open data access and it will address questions in astronomy, astrophysics and fundamental physics in the next decades. In this presentation we will focus on the status of the CTA construction, the status of the telescope prototypes and highlight some of the physics perspectives.

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“…SST-1M was developed as a prototype of a Small-Sized Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array [1], designed for observations of the gamma-ray induced atmospheric showers for energies above 3 TeV. The SST-1M design is based on Davies-Cotton concept with a 4-m multisegment mirror dish composed of 18 hexagonal facets [2]. The telescope is equipped with an innovative camera which features a fully digital readout and trigger system, called DigiCam [3] and adopts silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) as light sensing technology.…”

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“…Compare with a typical NSB level at CTA-S site of about 40 MHz 2. https://github.com/cta-sst-1m/digicampipe 3 https://github.com/cta-observatory/ctapipe…”

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Monte Carlo study of a single SST-1M prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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Samarai²,

Alispach³

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The SST-1M telescope was developed as a prototype of a Small-Size-Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory and it has been extensively tested in Krakow since 2017. In this contribution we present validation of the Monte Carlo model of the prototype and expected performance in Krakow conditions. We focus on gamma/hadron separation and mono reconstruction of energy and gamma photon arrival direction using Machine learning methods.

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The SST-1M project for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Cited by 8 publications

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Calibration and operation of SiPM-based cameras for gamma-ray astronomy in presence of high night-sky light

Calibration and operation of SiPM-based cameras for gamma-ray astronomy in presence of high night-sky light

The Cherenkov Telescope Array

Monte Carlo study of a single SST-1M prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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