The optical calibration of the MAGIC telescope camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 II, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2497-2503

  Schweizer, Thomas ^a   Lorenz, Eckart ^b   Martinez, Manel ^a   Ostankov, Alexander ^a   Paneque, David ^a  

^a BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; Light emitting diode (LED) pulser; MAGIC

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS;

CHERENKOV TELESCOPE; LIGHT PULSERS; OPTICAL CALIBRATION; PHOTOELECTRONS;

CERENKOV COUNTERS;

EID: 0036816103     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803867     Document Type: Article

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