Mirror Position Determination for the Alignment of Cherenkov Telescopes

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Mirror Position Determination for the Alignment of Cherenkov Telescopes
المؤلفون: Adam, J., Ahnen, M. L., Baack, D., Balbo, M., Bergmann, M., Biland, A., Blank, M., Bretz, T., Bruegge, K. A., Buss, J., Dmytriiev, A., Domke, M., Dorner, D., Einecke, S., Hempfling, C., Hildebrand, D., Hughes, G., Linhoff, L., Mannheim, K., Mueller, S. A., Neise, D., Neronov, A., Noethe, M., Paravac, A., Pauss, F., Rhode, W., Shukla, A., Temme, F., Thaele, J., Walter, R.
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
الوصف: Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) need imaging optics with large apertures to map the faint Cherenkov light emitted in extensive air showers onto their image sensors. Segmented reflectors fulfill these needs using mass produced and light weight mirror facets. However, as the overall image is the sum of the individual mirror facet images, alignment is important. Here we present a method to determine the mirror facet positions on a segmented reflector in a very direct way. Our method reconstructs the mirror facet positions from photographs and a laser distance meter measurement which goes from the center of the image sensor plane to the center of each mirror facet. We use our method to both align the mirror facet positions and to feed the measured positions into our IACT simulation. We demonstrate our implementation on the 4 m First Geiger-mode Avalanche Cherenkov Telescope (FACT).
Comment: 11 figures, small ray tracing performance simulation, and implementation demonstration
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2017.03.062
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.06494
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1704.06494
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2017.03.062