Conveners
Hardware & Software Developments
- Gonzalo Rodriguez Fernandez (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
The detection of the first multimessenger event, GW170817, highlighted the impact multimessenger analysis can have on our understanding of extreme phenomena in the universe. Real-time analysis in multimessenger astrophysics represents a significant advancement, enabling prompt and coordinated observations across various observatories and instruments. This progress relies on integrating...
CTA+ is an Italian project of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR in Italian), funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, to complement the largest research infrastructure dedicated to the study of the very-high-energy sky: the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), a ground-based gamma-ray observatory currently under construction. Specifically, CTA+ will build two...
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO is the next-generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. CTAO will be constructed on two sites, one array in the Northern and the other in the Southern hemisphere, containing more than 60 telescopes of three different sizes, for covering different energy domains. The Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA) system is the central...
The first Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1) for the Northern Site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) was inaugurated in October 2018 at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos (ORM) on La Palma (Canary Island). LST-1 has been regularly taking scientific data since November 2019.
Currently, the CTAO-LST project is in the last steps to complete the construction of the three...
Authors: Francesca Romana Pantaleo for the CTA SCT Project
Abstract:
The Schwarzschild Couder Telescope (SCT) is a dual mirror medium-sized
telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO),
the next-generation very-high energy (from about 20 GeV to 300 TeV) gamma-ray observatory. The SCT design is composed by a dual-mirror optics anda high-resolution camera with a...
Gammapy is an open-source Python package for the analysis of astronomical gamma-ray data. Starting from event lists and instrument response functions, Gammapy provides functionalities to reduce these data and generate the astrophysical high-level products needed for the very-high-energy domain. Its capacity to fit multi-instrument data using disparate astrophysical models demonstrates its...
Industry 4.0, with its approach based on digitisation and its tight connection to the Internet of the Thing, represents a reference paradigm that can significantly improve the efficiency and productivity in the construction of experimental infrastructures for science. In this work we propose a methodology based on integrated hybrid systems which combine digital twins of physical phenomena and...
Detectors such as the CTA-LST advanced camera, SWGO or ENUBET are new facilities that will be installed in the near future for different physics targets.
A flexible prototype readout system, utilizing high-channel count fast sampling hardware, directly transfers data to processing servers via RDMA RoCEv2 protocol, eliminating custom backend hardware. For this purpose, a Bluespec Systemverilog...
FlashCam is a PMT-based camera designed for Cherenkov telescopes. It is based on a custom developed continuous digital readout and trigger system with a sampling rate of 250 million samples per second. FlashCam is built using a horizontal architecture with three distinct sections: photodetectors, readout system and data acquisition. One copy of the camera has successfully been verified at HESS...
