Speaker
Dr
Dusan Mandat
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Description
The Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST) is a proposed low-cost, large-area, next-generation experiment for the detection of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) via the atmospheric fluorescence technique. Two FAST telescopes are installed and operating at the Black Rock Mesa site of the Telescope Array Experiment in Utah, USA. Knowledge of the properties of the atmosphere above the detector is of utmost importance for the analysis and reconstruction of the energy and trajectory of UHECRs measured with an atmospheric fluorescence telescope. The FAST experiment uses all sky camera (FASTCam) and sky quality monitor (SQM) for the detection of clouds and quantification of the night-sky background light in the field-of-view of the telescopes. Measurements of a vertically-fired ultra-violet laser at a distance of 21 km from the FAST telescopes are used to infer the transparency of the atmosphere above the detector via comparison with simulations.
Primary author
Dr
Dusan Mandat
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Co-authors
Mr
Ladislav Chytka
(Joint Laboratory of Optics of Palacky University Olomouc)
Dr
Max Malacari
(Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics)
Dr
Petr Hamal
(Joint Laboratory of Optics of Palacky University Olomouc)
Dr
Toshihiro FUJII
(ICRR, University of Tokyo)
