An automated all-sky atmospheric monitoring camera for a next-generation ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray observatory

0538336 - FZÚ 2021 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Chytka, Ladislav - Mandát, Dušan - Albury, J. - Bellido, J.A. - Farmerh, D. - Fujii, T. - Hamal, Petr - Horváth, P. - Hrabovský, M. - Kvita, J. - Malacari, M. - Mastrodicasa, M. - Matthews, J.N. - Michal, Stanislav - Ni, X. - Nožka, Libor - Palatka, Miroslav - Pech, Miroslav - Privitera, P. - Schovánek, Petr - Salamida, F. - Smida, R. - Thomas, S.B. - Trávníček, Petr - Vacula, M.
An automated all-sky atmospheric monitoring camera for a next-generation ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray observatory.
Journal of Instrumentation. Roč. 15, č. 10 (2020), s. 1-19, č. článku T10009. ISSN 1748-0221. E-ISSN 1748-0221
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF16_013/0001403; GA MŠMT LTT18004
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : APDs * CCDs * CMOS imagers * EBCCDs * EMCCDs * G-APDsImage processing * photometers * photon detectors
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 1.415, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/10/T10009

We have developed a fully-automated instrument (FASCam — Fast All Sky Camera) designed to capture night all-sky images and analyse cloudiness and coarse atmospheric properties for a proposed next-generation ultrahigh energy cosmic ray observatory, called the Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST). FASCam has a 360° × 90° (azimuth and elevation) field of view and is equipped with a series of photometric Johnson-Cousins filters (BVR) and an Ultra-violet (UV) filter. The camera is installed on the top of one of the three FAST prototype telescope buildings located in central Utah, U.S.A. . An online analysis of the images provides real time cloud coverage maps and coarse atmospheric extinction measurements and a night sky background estimate in the field of view of the FAST fluorescence telescopes.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0316152