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

some technical information

how to start a macro

go to Mars directory
start root
.x path/macro.C ("with maybe some variable", 2)

set root environment

source /pathtoroot/bin/thisroot.sh