Tune SPT landmark z for surface-like station-centric depth#116
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Thanks @drparamita! Have you tested this for all 5 stations? Can you add the SPT coordinates for each station to the comments on this PR?
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| Double_t fSouthPoleTelescope[3]={24774.18*fFtInm,-871.35*fFtInm,0.305}; // z in meters (tuned offset) |
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Can you rewrite 0.305 in terms of fFtInm for consistency and to make the units clear?
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Good idea, Done ! @marcomuzio Thanks for reviewing
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Done ! added plots for all stations and pasted the output for each station for ICL and SPT |
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This PR updates the South Pole Telescope (SPT) landmark position in
AraGeomTool.cxx, replacing the previous placeholder depth (-30 ft) with a small tuned +z offset (0.305 m).Although SPT is a surface landmark (array/global z ≈ 0), converting from ARA global coordinates to station-centric coordinates applies a station rotation that can mix
x/yintoz. The value 0.305 m was therefore chosen empirically so that, afterconvertArrayToStationCoords(), SPT’sstation-centric zis small and positive and close to the IceCube Lab (ICL) station-centric z, improving consistency for landmark ray-tracing / map marker placement.To see the effect : After this update, AraRoot was rebuilt and skymap re-plotted to validate the change. See attached skymap which shows SPT now appearing at the expected (surface-like) elevation in the station-centric coordinate system.
Plots post-SPT depth corrections
station_5_run_6203_eventNo_784_map_distant_v_dir.pdf
station_2_run_3902_eventNo_950_map_distant_v_dir.pdf
station_3_run_3902_eventNo_950_map_distant_v_dir.pdf
station_4_run_3902_eventNo_1150_map_distant_v_dir.pdf
station_100_run_3902_eventNo_950_map_distant_v_dir.pdf
Here is the coordinate that went into AraSim Ray-tracer