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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to perform unprecedented observations of the transient very high-energy sky. An on-line science alert generation (SAG) pipeline, with a required 30 second latency, will allow the discovery or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Valentina Fioretti , Deivid Ribeiro , Thomas B. Humensky , Andrea Bulgarelli , Gernot Maier , Abelardo Moralejo , Cosimo Nigro

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory, with dozens of telescopes located in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, will be the largest ground-based gamma-ray observatory and will provide broad energy coverage from 20 GeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 A. Bulgarelli , S. Caroff , A. Addis , P. Aubert , L. Baroncelli , G. De Cesare , A. DiPiano , V. Fioretti , E. Garcia , G. Maurin , N. Parmiggiani , T. Vuillaume , I. Oya , C. Hoischen

The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) is a telescope specifically designed for high sensitivity measurements of low-surface-brightness features at cm-wavelength and has unique, important capabilities. It consists of two interferometer…

Recent success in deep neural networks has generated strong interest in hardware accelerators to improve speed and energy consumption. This paper presents a new type of photonic accelerator based on coherent detection that is scalable to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ryan Hamerly , Liane Bernstein , Alexander Sludds , Marin Soljačić , Dirk Englund

The ATLAS detector at LHC will require a Trigger system to efficiently select events down to a manageable event storage rate of about 400 Hz. By 2015 the LHC instantaneous luminosity will be increased up to 3 x 10^34 cm-2s-1, this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-18 Eduard Simioni

This paper describes the CMS trigger system and its performance during Run 1 of the LHC. The trigger system consists of two levels designed to select events of potential physics interest from a GHz (MHz) interaction rate of proton-proton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-26 CMS Collaboration

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) experiment aims to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrinos (>10 PeV) using radio detection techniques. To enhance ARA's capabilities, a new RFSoC-based DAQ, ARA-Next, is in the early stages of development.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-13 Pawan Giri , Ilya Kravchenko , Patrick Allison , Amy L. Connolly

The camera of the Large Size Telescopes (LSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consists of 265 photosensor modules, each of them containing 7 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), a slow control board (SCB), a readout board, and a trigger…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 D. Hadasch , Y. Konno , H. Kubo , D. Nakajima , H. Ohoka , T. Saito , M. Teshima , the LST Team

We have developed an application-specific integrated circui (ASIC) for photomultipler tube (PMT) waveform digitization which is well-suited for the Schwarzschild-Couder optical system under development for the Cherenkov Telescope Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Justin Vandenbroucke , Keith Bechtol , Stefan Funk , Akira Okumura , Hiro Tajima , Gary Varner

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Full sky coverage will be assured by two arrays, one located on each of the northern and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Maria Concetta Maccarone , Dan Parsons , Markus Gaug , Raquel de los Reyes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory de- signed to detect photons in the 20 GeV to 300 TeV energy range. With a sensitivity improvement of up to one order of magnitude on the entire energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Roberta Zanin , Jamie Holder

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory that is expected to reach one order of magnitude better sensitivity than that of current telescope arrays. The Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) have an essential…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Yukiho Kobayashi , Akira Okumura , Franca Cassol , Hideaki Katagiri , Julian Sitarek , Paweł Gliwny , Seiya Nozaki , Yuto Nogami

New deep learning techniques present promising new analysis methods for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) such as the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). In particular, the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Samuel Spencer , Thomas Armstrong , Jason Watson , Salvatore Mangano , Yves Renier , Garret Cotter

An eleven channel digital asynchronous transceiver (DAT) employing parallel optical link technology has been developed for trigger signal distribution across the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R J White , H J Rose , S M Bradbury , P Marshall

In this paper, the development of the dual mirror Small Size Telescopes (SST) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is reviewed. Up to 70 SST, with a primary mirror diameter of 4 m, will be produced and installed at the CTA southern site.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 G. Pareschi , G. Agnetta , L. A. Antonelli , D. Bastieri , G. Bellassai , M. Belluso , C. Bigongiari , S. Billotta , B. Biondo , G. Bonanno , G. Bonnoli , P. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , R. Canestrari , M. Capalbi , P. Caraveo , A. Carosi , E. Cascone , O. Catalano , M. Cereda , P. Conconi , V. Conforti , G. Cusumano , V. De Caprio , A. De Luca , A. Di Paola , F. Di Pierro , D. Fantinel , M. Fiorini , D. Fugazza , D. Gardiol , M. Ghigo , F. Gianotti , S. Giarrusso , E. Giro , A. Grillo , D. Impiombato , S. Incorvaia , A. La Barbera , N. La Palombara , V. La Parola , G. La Rosa , L. Lessio , G. Leto , S. Lombardi , F. Lucarelli , M. C. Maccarone , G. Malaguti , G. Malaspina , V. Mangano , D. Marano , E. Martinetti , R. Millul , T. Mineo , A. MistÒ , C. Morello , G. Morlino , M. R. Panzera , G. Rodeghiero , P. Romano , F. Russo , B. Sacco , N. Sartore , J. Schwarz , A. Segreto , G. Sironi , G. Sottile , A. Stamerra , E. Strazzeri , L. Stringhetti , G. Tagliaferri , V. Testa , M. C. Timpanaro , G. Toso , G. Tosti , M. Trifoglio , P. Vallania , S. Vercellone , V. Zitelli , J. P. Amans , C. Boisson , C. Costille , J. L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , G. Fasola , O. Hervet , J. M. Huet , P. Laporte , C. Rulten , H. Sol , A. Zech , R. White , J. Hinton , D. Ross , J. Sykes , S. Ohm , J. Schmoll , P. Chadwick , T. Greenshaw , M. Daniel , G. Cotter , G. S. Varner , S. Funk , J. Vandenbroucke , L. Sapozhnikov , J. Buckley , P. Moore , D. Williams , S. Markoff , J. Vink , D. Berge , N. Hidaka , A. Okumura , H. Tajima

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a project that aims to exploring the highest energy region of electromagnetic spectrum. Two arrays, one for each hemisphere, will cover the full sky in a range from few tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-28 M. Iori , P. Majumdar , F. De Persio , A. Chatterjee , F. Ferrarotto , B. K. Nagesh , L. Saha , B. B. Singh

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future very high energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA will be comprised of small-, medium- and large-size telescopes covering an energy range from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and will surpass…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Jogler , M. D. Wood , J. Dumm

After the current shutdown, the LHC is about to resume operation for a new data-taking period, when it will operate with increased luminosity, event rate and center of mass energy. The new conditions will impose more demanding constraints…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Sebastien Prince

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the leading ground-base observatory for Very High Energy (VHE) {\gamma}-ray astronomy for the next decades. Its southern site will host about 70 Small Sized Telescopes (SSTs) which will determine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Roberta Pillera , Gianluca Giavitto , Heike Prokoph

The NectarCAM is a camera proposed for the medium-sized telescopes in the framework of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next-generation observatory for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The cameras are designed to operate in an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 E. Moulin , C. Diaz , D. Durand , O. Feirreira , M. Fesquet , B. Giebels , J. -F. Glicenstein , D. Loiseau , F. Louis , F. Nunio , S. Rateau