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切伦科夫望远镜阵列天文台的科学警报生成系统

The Science Alert Generation system of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

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

摘要:

切伦科夫望远镜阵列(CTA)天文台在北半球和南半球都有数十台望远镜,将成为最大的地面伽马射线天文台,并将提供从20 GeV到300 TeV的广泛能量覆盖。大的有效面积和视场,加上快速回转能力和前所未有的灵敏度,使CTA成为未来地基伽马射线天文学的关键仪器。为了最大限度地提高科学回报,该阵列将对瞬变和可变现象(例如,伽马射线暴、活动星系核、伽玛射线双星、偶然来源)发出警报。向社区进行快速有效的沟通需要一个可靠的自动化系统来检测和发布候选科学警报。这种自动化将通过CTA天文台的关键系统科学警报生成(SAG)管道来完成。SAG是阵列控制和数据采集(ACADA)工作组的一部分。SAG工作组开发了管道,以执行数据重建,数据质量监控,科学监控和实时警报发布,并在观测期间向ACADA的瞬态监测功能发出警报。SAG是在数据采集后进行第一次实时科学分析的系统。系统在多个时间尺度上执行分析(从秒到小时)。\abrb{SAG must issue candidate science alerts within}从数据采集开始20秒,灵敏度至少为CTA标称灵敏度的一半。这些具有挑战性的要求必须通过管理来自阵列的数十kHz的触发速率来满足。因此,必须设计和测试专用和高度优化的软件和硬件架构。在这项工作中,我们提出了ACADA-SAG系统的总体架构。

英文摘要:

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 300 TeV. The large effective area and field-of-view, coupled with the fast slewing capability and unprecedented sensitivity, make CTA a crucial instrument for the future of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. To maximise the scientific return, the array will send alerts on transients and variable phenomena (e.g. gamma-ray burst, active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray binaries, serendipitous sources). Rapid and effective communication to the community requires a reliable and automated system to detect and issue candidate science alerts. This automation will be accomplished by the Science Alert Generation (SAG) pipeline, a key system of the CTA Observatory. SAG is part of the Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA) working group. The SAG working group develops the pipelines to perform data reconstruction, data quality monitoring, science monitoring and real-time alert issuing during observations to the Transients Handler functionality of ACADA. SAG is the system that performs the first real-time scientific analysis after the data acquisition. The system performs analysis on multiple time scales (from seconds to hours). \abrb{SAG must issue candidate science alerts within} 20 seconds from the data taking and with sensitivity at least half of the CTA nominal sensitivity. These challenging requirements must be fulfilled by managing trigger rates of tens of kHz from the arrays. Dedicated and highly optimised software and hardware architecture must thus be designed and tested. In this work, we present the general architecture of the ACADA-SAG system.

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