Background Systematic Studies in VERITAS Data

Autor:	Zitzer, Benjamin, Collaboration, VERITAS
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	In the analysis of VERITAS and other IACT data, it is expected to get a distribution of statistical significances in sky map bins with mean of zero and width of unity in the absence of a $\gamma$-ray signal. However, it is not uncommon to see significance distributions of width greater than unity, indicating that the background is poorly estimated and the significances in the region of interest are incorrect. This work explores the origins of these wider significance distributions and develop solutions to this issue and test these solutions on samples of VERITAS data. Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, in Proceedings of the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017), Busan, South Korea
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07444 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv