The ASTRI SST-2M Prototype: Camera and Electronics
Abstract
ASTRI is a Flagship Project financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, and led by INAF, the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics. The primary goal of the ASTRI project is the realization of an end-to-end prototype of a Small Size Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. The prototype, named ASTRI SST-2M, is based on a completely new double mirror optics design and will be equipped with a camera made of a matrix of SiPM detectors. Here we describe the ASTRI SST-2M camera concept: basic idea, detectors, electronics, current status and some results coming from experiments in lab.
- Publication:
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International Cosmic Ray Conference
- Pub Date:
- 2013
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1307.5142
- Bibcode:
- 2013ICRC...33.2799C
- Keywords:
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- ASTRI;
- Small Size Telescope;
- Very High Energy;
- CTA;
- Silicon PhotoMultipliers.;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
- E-Print:
- In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All ASTRI contributions at arXiv:1307.4639