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

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.

doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/10/T10009

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

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SYSNO ASEP	0538336
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	An automated all-sky atmospheric monitoring camera for a next-generation ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray observatory
Author(s)	Chytka, Ladislav (FZU-D)_ORCID Mandát, Dušan (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Albury, J. (AU) Bellido, J.A. (AU) Farmerh, D. (US) Fujii, T. (JP) Hamal, Petr (FZU-D)_ORCID Horváth, P. (CZ) Hrabovský, M. (CZ) Kvita, J. (CZ) Malacari, M. (US) Mastrodicasa, M. (IT) Matthews, J.N. (US) Michal, Stanislav (FZU-D)_ORCID Ni, X. (JP) Nožka, Libor (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Palatka, Miroslav (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID, SAI} Pech, Miroslav (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Privitera, P. (US) Schovánek, Petr (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Salamida, F. (IT) Smida, R. (US) Thomas, S.B. (US) Trávníček, Petr (FZU-D)_{RID, ORCID} Vacula, M. (CZ)
Number of authors	25
Article number	T10009
Source Title	Journal of Instrumentation. - : Institute of Physics Publishing - ISSN 1748-0221 Roč. 15, č. 10 (2020), s. 1-19
Number of pages	19 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	GB - United Kingdom
Keywords	APDs ; CCDs ; CMOS imagers ; EBCCDs ; EMCCDs ; G-APDsImage processing ; photometers ; photon detectors
Subject RIV	BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics
OECD category	Particles and field physics
R&D Projects	EF16_013/0001403 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
	LTT18004 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
Method of publishing	Limited access
Institutional support	FZU-D - RVO:68378271
UT WOS	000608484600005
EID SCOPUS	85095607499
DOI	10.1088/1748-0221/15/10/T10009
Annotation	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.
Workplace	Institute of Physics
Contact	Kristina Potocká, potocka@fzu.cz, Tel.: 220 318 579
Year of Publishing	2021
Electronic address	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/10/T10009

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