Fast, software-based muon tagging with FlashCam
In the context of our involvement in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), we are currently in the process of finalising the firmware of our readout system of the FlashCam cameras destined to be installed in the middle-sized CTA-South telescopes. One question that came up was whether we could somehow support the quick identification of muon rings in triggered images – and it turns out we can reduce the amount of data the server has to look at by a factor of >100 just by adding a few bits to our event headers. ...