Jacky Catalano

The CHEC-S camera module for the Cherenkov Telescope Array(pdf)

High energy astrophysics became increasingly more advanced since its discovery by Viktor Hess in $1912$. Very high energetic (VHE) gamma-ray radiation is produced by cosmic rays arising from a number of different sources in the universe. Examples for such sources are AGN or supernova remnants. For detecting VHE gamma rays, large detectors are required due to the fact that their flux is very low. The future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will cover such a big area ($\sim 4\,$km$^2$) and is expected to be sensitive to $\gamma$-rays in the range between 10 GeV and 300 TeV. Gamma rays produce an air shower in the atmosphere whose particles emit short flashes of Cherenkov light. Therefore, fast cameras with special read-out electronics need to be developed to allow for very short (nanosecond) exposure to fulfill the scientific goals of CTA. In this talk measurements of the camera modules for the proposed camera design of CHEC-S will be introduced.