The open-source Python package Gammapy, developed for the high-level analysis of gamma-ray data, requires gamma-like event lists combined with the corresponding instrument response functions. For a morphological analysis, these data have to include a background acceptance model. Here we report an approach to generate such a model for the MAGIC telescope data, accounting for the azimuth and zenith dependencies of the MAGIC background acceptance. We validate this method using observations of the Crab Nebula with different offsets from the pointing position.
@article{arxiv.2302.11285,
title = {Computing sky maps using the open-source package Gammapy and MAGIC data in a standardized format},
author = {Simone Mender and Lena Linhoff and Tarek Hassan and Cosimo Nigro and Dominik Elsässer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11285},
year = {2023}
}
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6 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 7th Heidelberg International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy, PoS(Gamma2022)215