| Name: | Sagar Godambe |
| Affiliation: | Astrophysical Sciences Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre |
| Conference ID : | ASI2023_388 |
| Title : | Performance evlautation of MACE Telescope Camera |
| Authors : | Sagar Godambe behalf of MACE Observation and Data analysis team. |
| Mode of Presentation: | Oral |
| Abstract Category : | Instrumentation and Techniques |
| Abstract : | A large area imaging Cherenkov telescope MACE is installed at Hanle, a high-altitude astronomical site in North India. The telescope deployed a 21 m diameter tracking light collector with a high-resolution imaging camera at its focal plane. The imaging camera consists of a compact array of 1088 photo-multiplier tube-based pixels arranged with a triangular pitch of 55 mm corresponding to a pixel size of 0.125 degrees. The camera has been designed as a modular structure of 68 CIM (Camera Integrated Module). Each CIM houses 16 photo-multipliers along with their data acquisition system. Apart from the event acquisition, all other system parameters are called telemetry parameters. Here we will present the performance of the MACE camera in terms of telemetry and event data. We have developed a Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) methodology to ensure hardware malfunction-free data. This removes the time stamps affected by hardware malfunction and provides Good Time Intervals (GTIs). These GTIs are used for science data analysis of potential Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray sources. |
