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Garret Cotter

Professor of Physics

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Particle astrophysics & cosmology

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Pulsars, transients and relativistic astrophysics
  • The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
  • Gamma-ray astronomy
Garret.Cotter@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73604
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 705
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Characterisation and testing of CHEC-M—A camera prototype for the small-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov telescope array

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Elsevier 904:2018 (2018) 44-63

Authors:

J Zorn, R White, Jason Watson, Thomas Armstrong, A Balzer, M Barcelo, D Berge, R Bose, AM Brown, M Bryan, PM Chadwick, P Clark, H Costantini, Garret Cotter, L Dangeon, M Daniel, A De Franco, P Deiml, G Fasola, S Funk, M Gebyehu, J Gironnet, JA Graham, T Greenshaw, JA Hinton

Abstract:

The Compact High Energy Camera (CHEC) is a camera design for the Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs; 4 m diameter mirror) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The SSTs are focused on very-high-energy γ-ray detection via atmospheric Cherenkov light detection over a very large area. This implies many individual units and hence cost-effective implementation, as well as shower detection at large impact distance, and hence large field of view (FoV), and efficient image capture in the presence of large time gradients in the shower image detected by the camera. CHEC relies on dual-mirror optics to reduce the plate-scale and make use of 6 × 6 mm2pixels, leading to a low-cost (∼150 k€), compact (0.5 m × 0.5 m), and light (∼45 kg) camera with 2048 pixels providing a camera FoV of ∼9 degrees. The CHEC electronics are based on custom TARGET (TeV array readout with GSa/s sampling and event trigger) application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) sampling incoming signals at a gigasample per second, with flexible camera-level triggering within a single backplane FPGA. CHEC is designed to observe in the γ-ray energy range of 1–300 TeV, and at impact distances up to ∼500 m. To accommodate this and provide full flexibility for later data analysis, full waveforms with 96 samples for all 2048 pixels can be read out at rates up to ∼900 Hz. The first prototype, CHEC-M, based on multi-anode photomultipliers (MAPMs) as photosensors, was commissioned and characterised in the laboratory and during two measurement campaigns on a telescope structure at the Paris Observatory in Meudon. In this paper, the results and conclusions from the laboratory and on-site testing of CHEC-M are presented. They have provided essential input on the system design and on operational and data analysis procedures for a camera of this type. A second full-camera prototype based on Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), addressing the drawbacks of CHEC-M identified during the first prototype phase, has already been built and is currently being commissioned and tested in the laboratory.
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Characterisation and Testing of CHEC-M - a camera prototype for the Small-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

(2018)

Authors:

J Zorn, R White, JJ Watson, TP Armstrong, A Balzer, M Barcelo, D Berge, R Bose, AM Brown, M Bryan, PM Chadwick, P Clark, H Costantini, G Cotter, L Dangeon, M Daniel, A De Franco, P Deiml, G Fasola, S Funk, M Gebyehu, J Gironnet, JA Graham, T Greenshaw, JA Hinton, M Kraus, JS Lapington, P Laporte, SA Leach, O Le Blanc, A Malouf, P Molyneux, P Moore, H Prokoph, A Okumura, D Ross, G Rowell, L Sapozhnikov, H Schoorlemmer, H Sol, M Stephan, H Tajima, L Tibaldo, G Varner, A Zink
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Are gamma-ray novae intrinsically rare or just nearby?

Proceedings of Science Proceedings of Science 312:7th International Fermi Symposium (IFS2017) (2017) 1-6

Authors:

Paul J Morris, Garret Cotter, AM Brown, PM Chadwick

Abstract:

Fermi LAT data revealed classical novae as unexpected gamma-ray sources, yet only 6 of 69 of those optically detected in the first 8 years of Fermi LAT observations were confirmed as > 5? gamma-ray sources. These proceedings outline Monte Carlo simulations in which a population of Galactic novae were simulated based on spatial distributions and R-band magnitudes based on their M31 counterparts. Interstellar extinction was added using a double exponential disc model, and gamma-ray properties were defined based on those of the original 6 gamma-ray novae. We demonstrate that observations are consistent will all classical novae being gamma-ray sources, and that the gamma-ray sky background is the largest inhibitor when discovering these sources. Furthermore, we predict that all classical novae occurring within ? 8 kpc and with m R ? 12 will be detected using the Fermi LAT.
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Cherenkov telescope array extragalactic survey discovery potential and the impact of axion-like particles and secondary gamma rays

(2017)

Authors:

Andrea De Franco, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Miguel A Sánchez-Conde, Garret Cotter
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Cherenkov telescope array extragalactic survey discovery potential and the impact of axion-like particles and secondary gamma rays

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 93 (2017) 8-16

Authors:

A De Franco, Y Inoue, MA Sanchez-Conde, G Cotter
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