Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: FlashCam is a high-performance, fully digital camera system developed for use in imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, particularly for the Medium-Sized Telescopes of the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). The camera features a fully digital trigger and readout architecture, enabling high event rates and precise control over the trigger system. A novel front-end electronics design provides a wide dynamic range of over 3,000 photoelectrons per pixel using a single readout channel, simplifying hardware without compromising performance. This contribution presents an overview of the development and performance of FlashCam, focusing on time reconstruction, charge reconstruction and temperature stability.
DOI: 10.22323/1.501.0865
Authors: Anne Timmermans, "Miquel Barcelo", "Christian Bauer", "Baiyang Bi", "Sebastian Diebold", "Clara Escañuela Nieves", "Christian Föhr", "Stefan Funk", "Fabian Haist", "German Hermann", "Bastian Heß", "Jim Hinton", "Ira Jung-Richardt", "Oleg Kalekin", "Thomas Kihm", "Gerd Pühlhofer", "Olaf Reimer", "Simon Sailer", "Andrea Santangelo", "Thomas Schanz", "Pedro Silva Batista", "Simon Steinmassl", "Christoph Tenzer", "Felix Werner"
Institution: Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414509505
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