irf - Instrument response functions

Introduction

gammapy.irf handles instrument response functions (IRFs):

• Effective area (AEFF)

• Energy dispersion (EDISP)

• Point spread function (PSF)

• Template background (BKG)

Most of the formats defined at IACT IRFs are supported. Otherwise, at the moment, there is very little support for Fermi-LAT or other instruments.

Most users will not use gammapy.irf directly, but will instead use IRFs as part of their spectrum, image or cube analysis to compute exposure and effective EDISP and PSF for a given dataset.

Most (at some point maybe all) classes in gammapy.irf have an gammapy.utils.nddata.NDDataArray as data attribute to support interpolation.

Getting Started

See cta.html for an example how to access IACT IRFs.

Effective area

See EffectiveAreaTable and EffectiveAreaTable2D.

Background

See Background2D and Background2D.

PSF

The TablePSF and EnergyDependentTablePSF classes represent radially-symmetric PSFs where the PSF is given at a number of offsets.

The PSFKernel represents a PSF kernel.

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Energy Dispersion

The EnergyDispersion class represents an energy migration matrix (finite probabilities per pixel) with y=log(energy_reco).

The EnergyDispersion2D class represents a probability density with y=energy_reco/energy_true that can also have a FOV offset dependence.

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Using gammapy.irf

If you’d like to learn more about using gammapy.irf, read the following sub-pages:

• IRF Theory
• Effective area
• Energy dispersion
• Point Spread Function

Reference/API

gammapy.irf Package

Instrument response functions (IRFs).

Functions

load_cta_irfs(filename)	load CTA instrument response function and return a dictionary container.
make_mean_psf(observations, position[, …])	Compute mean energy-dependent PSF.
make_psf(observation, position[, energy, rad])	Make energy-dependent PSF for a given source position.

Classes

Background2D(energy_lo, energy_hi, …[, …])	Background 2D.
Background3D(energy_lo, energy_hi, …[, …])	Background 3D.
EDispKernel(e_true_lo, e_true_hi, e_reco_lo, …)	Energy dispersion matrix.
EffectiveAreaTable(energy_lo, energy_hi, data)	Effective area table.
EffectiveAreaTable2D(energy_lo, energy_hi, …)	2D effective area table.
EnergyDependentMultiGaussPSF(energy_lo, …)	Triple Gauss analytical PSF depending on energy and theta.
EnergyDependentTablePSF(energy, rad[, …])	Energy-dependent radially-symmetric table PSF (gtpsf format).
EnergyDispersion2D(e_true_lo, e_true_hi, …)	Offset-dependent energy dispersion matrix.
IRFStacker(list_aeff, list_livetime[, …])	Stack instrument response functions.
PSF3D(energy_lo, energy_hi, offset, rad_lo, …)	PSF with axes: energy, offset, rad.
PSFKing(energy_lo, energy_hi, offset, gamma, …)	King profile analytical PSF depending on energy and offset.
TablePSF(rad, psf_value[, interp_kwargs])	Radially-symmetric table PSF.