1211.3061 (Manuel Paz Arribas et al.)

Trigger and data rates expected for the CTA Observatory    [PDF]

Manuel Paz Arribas, Ullrich Schwanke, Ralf Wischnewski, for the CTA Consortium

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.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3061