The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory must be capable of issuing fast alerts on variable and transient sources to maximize the scientific return. This will be accomplished by means of a Real-Time Analysis (RTA) pipeline, a key system of the CTA observatory. The latency and sensitivity requirements of the alarm system impose a challenge because of the large foreseen data flow rate, between 0.5 and 8 GB/s. As a consequence, substantial efforts toward the optimization of this high-throughput computing service are envisaged, with the additional constraint that the RTA should be performed on-site (as part of the auxiliary infrastructure of the telescopes). In this work, the functional design of the RTA pipeline is presented.
@article{arxiv.1307.6489,
title = {The Real-Time Analysis of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory},
author = {A. Bulgarelli and V. Fioretti and J. L. Contreras and A. Lorca and A. Aboudan and J. J. Rodríguez-Vázquez and S. Lombardi and G. Maier and L. A. Antonelli and D. Bastieri and C. Boisson and J. Borkowski and S. Buson and A. Carosi and V. Conforti and A. Djannati-Ataï and J. Dumm and P. Evans and L. Fortson and F. Gianotti and R. Graciani and P. Grandi and J. Hinton and B. Humensky and K. Kosack and G. Lamanna and G. Malaguti and M. Marisaldi and L. Nicastro and S. Ohm and J. Osborne and S. Rosen and M. Trifoglio and G. Tosti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.6489},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232