2015/09/04 by R. Marx, Ramin Marx, Marx, Ramin +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1509.01429
In Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1508.05894
arxiv created 2015/09/04 · openalex publication_date 2015/09/04 · arxiv updated 2015/09/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a ground-based γ-ray observatory that will observe the full sky in the energy range from 20 GeV to 100 TeV from facilities in both hemispheres. It is proposed to consist of more than 100 telescopes and the large amount of data produced will exceed the volume of current VHE Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes by ∼two orders of magnitude. This volume of data represents a new challenge to the community, which is looking for new data formats to transfer and store the CTA data. One of the prototypes currently under study is the ROI (Regions Of Interest) file format for camera images. It can store only those pixels of a camera image that are close to the shower, thus removing the major part of the night sky background (NSB) while keeping all pixels that might belong to the shower. Simple on-the-fly compression is used to reduce the file size even further. Here, we explain the ROI prototype in detail and present preliminary results when applied to simulations.