The Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope (APT): Computation in Space

James H. Buckley, Jeremy Buhler, Roger D. Chamberlain

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Abstract

The Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope (APT), which is being designed for a Sun-Earth Lagrange L2 orbit, and its balloon-borne Antarctic Demonstrator (ADAPT) represent substantial challenges in computational sensing. Since communications with earth-bound computing resources are intermittent and are constrained to low data rates, the bulk of the computational science must be accomplished aboard the instrument. We describe the computational requirements for APT and our current plan for achieving those requirements through a combination of custom hardware, FPGAs, and embedded processor cores.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2024 Workshops and Special Sessions, CF 2024 Companion
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages122-127
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9798400704925
DOIs
StatePublished - May 7 2024
Event21st ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF 2024 - Ischia, Italy
Duration: May 7 2024May 9 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2024 Workshops and Special Sessions, CF 2024 Companion

Conference

Conference21st ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF 2024
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityIschia
Period05/7/2405/9/24

Keywords

  • Gamma-ray astronomy
  • multi-messenger astrophysics

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