First steps with ctools

This section provides a hands-on introduction of ctools. By means of an example you will learn how to simulate and analyse CTA event data. This section is intended to be read by newcomers. The reading and executing of the examples should take about an hour, so grab some coffee before you start.

• 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