BackgroundRate2dMaker

class ctapipe.irf.BackgroundRate2dMaker(**kwargs: Any)

Bases: BackgroundRateMakerBase, DefaultFoVOffsetBins

Creates a radially symmetric parameterization of the background rate in equidistant bins of logarithmic reconstructed energy and field of view offset.

Methods Summary

__call__(events, obs_time[, extname])

Calculate the background rate and create a fits binary table HDU in GADF format.

Methods Documentation

__call__(events: QTable, obs_time: Quantity, extname: str = 'BACKGROUND') → BinTableHDU

Calculate the background rate and create a fits binary table HDU in GADF format.

Parameters:

events: astropy.table.QTable

Reconstructed events to be used.

obs_time: astropy.units.Quantity[time]

Observation time. This must match with how the individual event weights are calculated.

extname: str

Name for the BinTableHDU.

Returns:

BinTableHDU