{"paper":{"title":"Characterisation and Testing of CHEC-M - a camera prototype for the Small-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.HE"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.IM","authors_text":"A. Balzer, A. De Franco, A. Malouf, A.M. Brown, A. Okumura, A. Zink, D. Berge, D. Ross, G. Cotter, G. Fasola, G. Rowell, G. Varner, H. Costantini, H. Prokoph, H. Schoorlemmer, H. Sol, H. Tajima, J.A. Graham, J.A. Hinton, J. Gironnet, J.J. Watson, J.S. Lapington, J. Zorn, L. Dangeon, L. Sapozhnikov, L. Tibaldo, M. Barcelo, M. Bryan, M. Daniel, M. Gebyehu, M. Kraus, M. Stephan, O. Le Blanc, P. Clark, P. Deiml, P. Laporte, P.M. Chadwick, P. Molyneux, P. Moore, R. Bose, R. White, S.A. Leach, S. Funk, T. Greenshaw, T.P. Armstrong","submitted_at":"2018-06-29T09:07:03Z","abstract_excerpt":"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 $\\gamma$-ray detection via atmospheric Cherenkov light detection over a very large area. This implies many individual units and hence cost-effective implementation. CHEC relies on dual-mirror optics to reduce the plate-scale and make use of 6 $\\times$ 6 mm$^2$ pixels, leading to a low-cost ($\\sim$150 kEuro), compact (0.5 m $\\times$ 0.5 m), and light ($\\sim$45 kg) camera with 2048 pixels providing a c"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1806.11308","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}