CTA¶
What you will learn
You will learn how to analyse data from the Cherenkov Telescope Array with ctools.
First steps with ctools¶
- Simulating event data
- Selecting event data
- Generating a sky map
- Binning event data
- Pre-computing the binned response
- Fitting binned data
- Inspecting the spatial fit residuals
- Inspecting the spectral fit residuals
- Generating a butterfly diagram of the source spectrum
- Deriving a source spectrum
- Doing an unbinned analysis
- Taking the energy dispersion into account
- Doing an On/Off analysis
- Using ctools from Python
First CTA Data Challenge¶
CTA data analysis¶
- How to combine observations?
- How to perform a stacked analysis?
- How to handle models from Python?
- How to do advanced model manipulation and fitting in Python?
- How to perform spectral component separation?
- How to connect observations to dedicated instrument response functions?
- How to connect observations to specific models?
- How to perform spectral fitting using Xspec?
- How to generate likelihood profiles for a fitted spectrum?
CTA first Data Challenge data analysis¶
- Data preparation for 1DC How-tos
- How to compute the signifiance of a source?
- How to generate a Test Statistic map?
- How to determine the extension of a source?
- How to compute upper limits?
- How to generate a light curve?
- How to generate a phase curve of a pulsar?
- How to exclude bins from a counts cube?
- How to display the results?
- How to use Virtual Observatory tools with ctools?