The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an initiative to build a next-generation observatory for very-high energy γ-rays. Its expected large effective area (O(107m2)) and energy threshold as low as 25 GeV imply a challenge for triggering and data acquisition systems. The analysis of the official CTA Monte Carlo production-1 simulations leads to array trigger rates of O(10 kHz) and data rates ranging from O(100 MB/s) to O(1000 MB/s), depending on the read-out scenario.
@article{arxiv.1211.3061,
title = {Trigger and data rates expected for the CTA Observatory},
author = {Manuel Paz Arribas and Ullrich Schwanke and Ralf Wischnewski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.3061},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
In Proceedings of the 2012 Heidelberg Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1211.1840