pyirf is a prototype for the generation of Instrument Response Functions (IRFs) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The package is being developed and tested by members of the CTA consortium and is a spin-off of the analog sub-process of the pipeline protopype.
Its main features are currently to
- find the best cutoff in gammaness/score, to discriminate between signal and background, as well as the angular cut to obtain the best sensitivity for a given amount of observation time and a given template for the source of interest (
cut_optimization)- compute the instrument response functions, effective area, point spread function and energy resolution (
irf)- estimate the sensitivity of the array (
sensitivity),
with plans to extend its capabilities to reach the requirements of the future observatory.
The source code is hosted on a GitHub repository, to which this documentation is linked.
Warning
This is not yet stable code, so expect large and rapid changes.
If you use a released version of this software for a publication, please cite it by using the corresponding DOI.
- latest :
- v0.5.0 :
- v0.4.0 :
install introduction examples notebooks/index contribute changelog AUTHORS
irf/index sensitivity benchmarks/index cuts cut_optimization simulation spectral statistics binning io/index interpolation gammapy utils
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