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The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is a future TeV gamma-ray observatory to be built in Chile. The high-duty cycle experiment will consist of over 6000 water-Cherenkov tanks equipped with two photomultiplier tubes each. The available computational infrastructure will not be sufficient to handle all the raw data SWGO will produce. Therefore, to limit the computational requirements, it is necessary to develop a sophisticated trigger strategy. This trigger strategy reduces the amount of data while also ensuring its scientific quality.
In this contribution, we present our developed framework to test and validate different trigger strategies. We paid special attention to the effect of the trigger strategy on the reconstruction of gamma-ray induced showers. We came up with a metric that takes into account both the data rate reduction as well as the reconstruction quality allowing us to compare different trigger strategies with each other. We present the developed tools and promising candidate trigger strategies for SWGO.
| Collaboration(s) | SWGO |
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