Characterisation and testing of CHEC-M—A camera prototype for the small-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov telescope array

Zorn, J.; White, R.; Watson, J.J.; Armstrong, T.P.; Balzer, A.; Barcelo, M.; Berge, D.; Bose, R.; Brown, A.M.; Bryan, M.; Chadwick, P.M.; Clark, P.; Costantini, H.; Cotter, G.; Dangeon, L.; Daniel, M.; De Franco, A.; Deiml, P.; Fasola, G.; Funk, S.; Gebyehu, M.; Gironnet, J.; Graham, J.A.; Greenshaw, T.; Hinton, J.A.; Kraus, M.; Lapington, J.S.; Laporte, P.; Leach, S.A.; Le Blanc, O.; Malouf, A.; Molyneux, P.; Moore, P.; Prokoph, H.; Okumura, A.; Ross, D.; Rowell, G.; Sapozhnikov, L.; Schoorlemmer, H.; Sol, H.; Stephan, M.; Tajima, H.; Tibaldo, L.; Varner, G.; Zink, A.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2018.06.078

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Auto-tuned thermal control on stratospheric balloon experiments (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Redmond, S., Benton, S., Brown, A., Clark, P., Damaren, C., Eifler, T., Fraisse, A., Galloway, M., Hartley, J., Jauzac, M., Jones, W., Li, L., Luu, T., Massey, R., McCleary, J., Netterfield, C., Rhodes, J., Romualdez, L., Schmoll, J., & Tam, S.-I. (2018, December). Auto-tuned thermal control on stratospheric balloon experiments. Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, Austin, Texas, United States

Balloon-borne experiments present unique thermal design challenges, which are a combination of those present for both space and ground experiments. Radiation and conduction are the predominant heat transfer mechanisms with convection effects being mi... Read More about Auto-tuned thermal control on stratospheric balloon experiments.

Overview, design, and flight results from SuperBIT: a high-resolution, wide-field, visible-to-near-UV balloon-borne astronomical telescope (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romualdez, L., Benton, S., Brown, A., Clark, P., Damaren, C., Eifler, T., Fraisse, A., Galloway, M., Hartley, J., Jauzac, M., Jones, W., Li, L., Luu, T., Massey, R., McCleary, J., Netterfield, C., Redmond, S., Rhodes, J., Schmoll, J., & Tam, S. (2018, June). Overview, design, and flight results from SuperBIT: a high-resolution, wide-field, visible-to-near-UV balloon-borne astronomical telescope. Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Balloon-borne astronomy is a unique tool that allows for a level of image stability and significantly reduced atmospheric interference without the often prohibitive cost and long development time-scale that are characteristic of space-borne facility-... Read More about Overview, design, and flight results from SuperBIT: a high-resolution, wide-field, visible-to-near-UV balloon-borne astronomical telescope.

Characterisation and testing of CHEC-M—A camera prototype for the small-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov telescope array (2018)
Journal Article
Zorn, J., White, R., Watson, J., Armstrong, T., Balzer, A., Barcelo, M., …Zink, A. (2018). Characterisation and testing of CHEC-M—A camera prototype for the small-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov telescope array. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 904, 44-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.06.078

The Compact High Energy Camera (CHEC) is a camera design for the Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs; 4 m diameter mirror) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The SSTs are focused on very-high-energy -ray detection via atmospheric Cherenkov light detect... Read More about Characterisation and testing of CHEC-M—A camera prototype for the small-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov telescope array.