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  • ctools How-tos
    • CTA data analysis
    • CTA first Data Challenge data analysis
    • Analysis of data from other instruments

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ctools How-tos¶

The following sections teach you how to use ctools to address some typical science analysis.

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?

Analysis of data from other instruments¶

  • How to analyse Fermi-LAT data with ctools?
  • How to analyse COMPTEL data with ctools?
  • How to analyse data from existing IACTs (H.E.S.S., VERITAS or MAGIC) with ctools?
  • How to jointly analyse data from different instruments?

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Last updated on Sep 30, 2021.