Speaker
Simon Lee
(School of Physical Sciences, University of Adelaide)
Description
In July 2025 the initial build of a quarter camera (QCAM-i) designed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) Small Sized Telescope (SST) design was tested observing the sky above Tenerife, Canary Islands. This was the first field test of the camera hardware which will eventually be used across dozens of SSTs at CTAO-South in Chile. Dark field observations (pointed away from known gamma-ray sources) were taken to collect cosmic-ray shower images, which can be compared with Monte Carlo simulations for validation. This talk will present recent progress in the processing and analysis of QCAM-i data, including charge extraction performance, calibration methods, and comparisons with simulations.
Author
Simon Lee
(School of Physical Sciences, University of Adelaide)
