Signal Reconstruction for the MAGIC Telescope

Preprint

30 June 2008

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0612385

Abstract

Until April 2007 the MAGIC telescope used a 300 MSamples/s FADC system to sample the shaped PMT signals produced by the captured Cherenkov photons of air showers. Different algorithms to reconstruct the signal from the read-out samples (extractors) have been implemented and are described and compared. Criteria based on the obtained charge and time resolution/bias are defined and used to judge the different extractors, by applying them to calibration, cosmic and pedestal signals. The achievable charge and time resolution have been derived as functions of the incident number of photo-electrons.

Keywords

ALGORITHMS TO RECONSTRUCT
SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION
MAGIC TELESCOPE
CHARGE AND TIME
SIGNALS
PHOTONS
SHOWERS

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Version 1, 2006-12-14, ArXiv
Version 2, 2007-09-17, ArXiv
Version 3, 2008-06-30, ArXiv
Published version: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 594 (3), 407.

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