Trigger and data rates expected for the CTA Observatory

Abstract

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an initiative to build a next-generation observatory for very-high energy $\gamma$-rays. Its expected large effective area ($\mathcal{O}(10^7{\mathrm{m}}^2)$) 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 $\mathcal{O}$(10 kHz) and data rates ranging from $\mathcal{O}$(100 MB/s) to $\mathcal{O}$(1000 MB/s), depending on the read-out scenario.

In Proceedings of the 2012 Heidelberg Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1211.1840

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