TY - JOUR
T1 - Monte Carlo Simulations and Validation of NectarCAM, a Medium Sized Telescope Camera for CTA
AU - the CTA Collaboration
AU - Armstrong, Thomas P.
AU - Costantini, Heide
AU - Glicenstein, Jean François
AU - Lenain, Jean Philippe
AU - Schwanke, Ullrich
AU - Tavernier, Thomas
AU - Abdalla, H.
AU - Abe, H.
AU - Abe, S.
AU - Abusleme, A.
AU - Acero, F.
AU - Acharyya, A.
AU - Acín Portella, V.
AU - Ackley, K.
AU - Adam, R.
AU - Adams, C.
AU - Adhikari, S. S.
AU - Aguado-Ruesga, I.
AU - Agudo, I.
AU - Aguilera, R.
AU - Aguirre-Santaella, A.
AU - Aharonian, F.
AU - Alberdi, A.
AU - Alfaro, R.
AU - Alfaro, J.
AU - Alispach, C.
AU - Aloisio, R.
AU - Alves Batista, R.
AU - Amans, J. P.
AU - Amati, L.
AU - Amato, E.
AU - Ambrogi, L.
AU - Ambrosi, G.
AU - Ambrosio, M.
AU - Ammendola, R.
AU - Anderson, J.
AU - Anduze, M.
AU - Angüner, E. O.
AU - Antonelli, L. A.
AU - Antonuccio, V.
AU - Antoranz, P.
AU - Anutarawiramkul, R.
AU - Aragunde Gutierrez, J.
AU - Aramo, C.
AU - Araudo, A.
AU - Araya, M.
AU - Arbet-Engels, A.
AU - Chaty, S.
AU - Fegan, S.
AU - Horan, D.
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PY - 2022/3/18
Y1 - 2022/3/18
N2 - The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) ground-based gamma-ray observatory will open up our view of the very high energy Universe, offering an improvement in sensitivity of 5-10 times that of previous experiments. NectarCAM is one of the proposed cameras for the Medium-Sized Telescopes (MST) which have been designed to cover the core energy range of CTA, from 100 GeV to 10 TeV. The final camera will be capable of GHz sampling and provide a field of view of 8 degrees with its 265 modules of 7 photomultiplier each (for a total of 1855 pixels). In order to validate the performance of NectarCAM, a partially-equipped prototype has been constructed consisting of only the inner 61-modules. It has so far undergone testing at the integration test-bench facility in CEA Paris-Saclay (France) and on a prototype of the MST structure in Adlershof (Germany). To characterize the performance of the prototype, Monte Carlo simulations were conducted using a detailed model of the 61 module camera in the CORSIKA/sim_telarray framework. This contribution provides an overview of this work including the comparison of trigger and readout performance on test-bench data and trigger and image parameterization performance during on-sky measurements.
AB - The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) ground-based gamma-ray observatory will open up our view of the very high energy Universe, offering an improvement in sensitivity of 5-10 times that of previous experiments. NectarCAM is one of the proposed cameras for the Medium-Sized Telescopes (MST) which have been designed to cover the core energy range of CTA, from 100 GeV to 10 TeV. The final camera will be capable of GHz sampling and provide a field of view of 8 degrees with its 265 modules of 7 photomultiplier each (for a total of 1855 pixels). In order to validate the performance of NectarCAM, a partially-equipped prototype has been constructed consisting of only the inner 61-modules. It has so far undergone testing at the integration test-bench facility in CEA Paris-Saclay (France) and on a prototype of the MST structure in Adlershof (Germany). To characterize the performance of the prototype, Monte Carlo simulations were conducted using a detailed model of the 61 module camera in the CORSIKA/sim_telarray framework. This contribution provides an overview of this work including the comparison of trigger and readout performance on test-bench data and trigger and image parameterization performance during on-sky measurements.
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85145019382
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 395
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
M1 - 747
T2 - 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021
Y2 - 12 July 2021 through 23 July 2021
ER -