Modeling a Data Mart for Muon Flux Readings Captured by the New-Tupi Telescopes

• Lucas Bertelli UFF
• Marcel N. de Oliveira UFF
• Nívia Ferreira UFF
• Carlos E. Navia UFF
• Daniel de Oliveira UFF

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/bresci.2018.3272

Abstract

The muon is the most abundant charged particle of cosmic radiation secondary at sea level. By reading the flow of muons, physicists are able to analyze and identify transient solar events that can impact our planet. New-Tupi telescopes are capable of reading the flow of muons that comes to Earth. These telescopes generate a large amount of data that needs to be queried by physicists. However, currently these telescopes store all the readings performed in binary files, which makes it difficult to elaborate queries on the data and its subsequent analysis. The goal of this paper is to propose a Data Mart for the New-Tupi telescope data, allowing for physicists to perform more complex queries in an easy way and with acceptable performance without having to rely on scripts or third-party programs to implement queries about the files.

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