This page is far from being complete. While I give an introduction to my students, I try to write down a few notes, hoping that it can serve as a small introduction and help future students.

Analysis Steps

callisto

what is done?

calculation of calibration constants, extraction of signal, calibration of data

macro

Mars/fact/analysis/callisto.C

input

sequence file

star

what is done?

image cleaning, calculation of image parameter

macro

Mars/fact/analysis/star.C

input

sequence file, callisto output

ganymed

what is done?

background suppression, calculation of excess(, energy reconstruction)

macro

Mars/fact/analysis/ganymed.C

input

dataset file

lightcurve

what is done? calculation of excess rate macro: Mars/fact/analysis/lightcurve.C input: several datasets or information from DB

some additional information

sequence

a sequence of runs, consisting of: pedestal run, light pulser run, one or more data runs

dataset

a collection of data runs