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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 140: Gamma Astronomy VI

T 140.2: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 23. März 2023, 17:45–18:00, POT/0151

Signal extraction of raw simulated and laboratory data with the FlashCam camera for Medium Sized Telescopes in CTA. — •Clara Escanuela, Felix Werner, and Jim Hinton — Max-Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation observatory for very high energy (VHE) gamma rays. The southern CTA site will consist of large, medium (MST), and small size telescopes to cover a wide range of photon energies. The FlashCam will be used for the southern site MSTs, and is a photomultiplier-tube based camera with a fully digital readout system. A FlashCam MST is expected to start taking data in Chile in 2024. This requires deep laboratory testing which includes the reproduction of shower-like illumination patterns and time profiles with an LED array, laser calibration, and night sky background simulation. We present first results from testing the signal extraction algorithm and performance verification in the laboratory.