1. The camera of the fifth H.E.S.S. telescope. Part I: System description
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Bolmont, J., Corona, P., Gauron, P., Ghislain, P., Goffin, C., Riveros, L. Guevara, Huppert, J. -F., Martineau-Huynh, O., Nayman, P., Parraud, J. -M., Tavernet, J. -P., Toussenel, F., Vincent, D., Vincent, P., Bertoli, W., Espigat, P., Punch, M., Besin, D., Delagnes, E., Glicenstein, J. -F., Moudden, Y., Venault, P., Zaghia, H., Brunetti, L., David, P. -Y., Dubois, J-M., Fiasson, A., Geffroy, N., Monteiro, I. Gomes, Journet, L., Krayzel, F., Lamanna, G., Flour, T. Le, Lees, S., Lieunard, B., Maurin, G., Mugnier, P., Panazol, J. -L., Prast, J., Chounet, L. -M., Degrange, B., Edy, E., Fontaine, G., Giebels, B., Hormigos, S., Khélifi, B., Manigot, P., Maritaz, P., de Naurois, M., Compin, M., Feinstein, F., Fernandez, D., Mehault, J., Rivoire, S., Royer, S., Sanguillon, M., and Vasileiadis, G.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors - Abstract
In July 2012, as the four ground-based gamma-ray telescopes of the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) array reached their tenth year of operation in Khomas Highlands, Namibia, a fifth telescope took its first data as part of the system. This new Cherenkov detector, comprising a 614.5 m^2 reflector with a highly pixelized camera in its focal plane, improves the sensitivity of the current array by a factor two and extends its energy domain down to a few tens of GeV. The present part I of the paper gives a detailed description of the fifth H.E.S.S. telescope's camera, presenting the details of both the hardware and the software, emphasizing the main improvements as compared to previous H.E.S.S. camera technology., Comment: 16 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in NIM A
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- 2013
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