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Description
The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) is a telescope located at the Observatory Roque de los Muchachos on the Canary island La Palma. It uses the imaging air Cherenkov technique to detect gamma rays. With the help of the silicon based photosensors of the camera, FACT is a perfect instrument to monitor a small sample of sources with a high cadence. The automatic operation of the telescope allows an increase of the duty cycle of the instrument. The SQL database is part of the automatic analysis chain, which is used to store the data event-wise basis. This way of storing the data has a lot of advantages. It provides easy web-access to all taken data with no need of creating different user accounts for the analysers and without using special software or powerful hardware. The data selection is done via simple queries to the database. This allows very flexible and powerful queries with for example user defined time binning or background suppression. By using observed and simulated events, the complete analysis chain can be done up to calculating the measured energy spectrum. This could also be implemented to the Quick Look Analysis to provide the information during the night with a low latency.
Keywords
First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope; FACT; Imaging Air Cherenkov Technique; Analysis; Database;
| Subcategory | Experimental Methods & Instrumentation |
|---|---|
| other Collaboration | FACT |
