A DSO-based system for temporal-profile extraction of atmospheric Cerenkov events

Abstract

The TACTIC array of Cerenkov telescopes, being set up at Mt. Abu, proposes to record time-profiles of atmospheric Cerenkov pulses with a view to exploit apparent differences in the associated time-parameters for a possible characterisation of the progenitor particles. We discuss here a cost-effective hardware scheme for deployment in the TACTIC for recording the Cerenkov pulse profiles.