Göttingen 2025 – wissenschaftliches Programm

Bereiche | Tage | Auswahl | Suche | Aktualisierungen | Downloads | Hilfe

T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 78: Gamma Astronomy II

T 78.4: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 3. April 2025, 17:00–17:15, VG 2.103

FlashCam development and verification — •Anne Timmermans for the FlashCam collaboration — Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

FlashCam is a high-performance camera design for ground-based, imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. An advanced prototype has been installed in CT5 of the H.E.S.S. experiment, and has been successfully running since December 2019.

The next generation observatory for very high energy gamma-ray astronomy will be the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). The FlashCam team, is preparing another FlashCam camera for the MST pathfinder telescope on the Southern CTAO site. Before installation in Chile, the camera will be fully characterized in the lab. This talk will give an overview of the current status and presents results on the performance measurements.

Keywords: Astronomy; CTA; Gamma Ray; Camera; Instrumentation