The single mirror small sized telescope for the Cherenkov telescope array
2017
The Small Size
Telescopewith Single Mirror (SST-1M) is one of the proposed types of Small Size
Telescopes(SST) for the
Cherenkov Telescope Array(CTA). About 70 SST
telescopeswill be part the CTA southern array which will also include Medium Sized
Telescopes(MST) in its threshold configuration. Optimized for the detection of gamma rays in the energy range from 5 TeV to 300 TeV, the SST-1M uses a Davies-Cotton optics with a 4 m dish diameter with a field of view of 9°. The Cherenkov light resulting from the interaction of the gamma-rays in the atmosphere is focused onto a 88 cm side-to-side hexagonal photo-detection plane. The latter is composed of 1296 hollow light guides coupled to large area hexagonal
silicon photomultipliers(SiPM). The SiPM readout is fully digital readout as for the trigger system. The compact and lightweight design of the SST-1M camera offiers very high performance ideal for gamma-ray observation requirement. In this contribution, the concept, design, performance and status of t...
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