Year: 2017
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: An important aspect of the calibration of the Cherenkov Telescope Array is the pointing, which enables an exact alignment of each telescope and therefore allows to transform a position in the sky to a point in the plane of the Cherenkov camera and vice versa. The favoured approach for the pointing calibration of the medium size telescopes (MST) is the installation of an optical CCD-camera in the dish of the telescope that captures the position of the Cherenkov camera and of the stars in the night sky simultaneously during data taking. The adaption of this approach is presented in this proceeding.
Source: AIP conference proceedings
DOI: 10.1063/1.4969037
Authors: D. Tiziani, M. Garczarczyk, L. Oakes, U. Schwanke, C. van Eldik, the CTA Consortium
Language: English
Subfield: Instrumentation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2536100911