MARS, the MAGIC Analysis and Reconstruction Software
A. Moralejo, M. Gaug, E. Carmona, P. Colin, C. Delgado, S. Lombardi,, D. Mazin, V. Scalzotto, J. Sitarek, D. Tescaro (for the MAGIC collaboration)
TL;DR
MARS is a comprehensive software package for analyzing data from the MAGIC gamma-ray telescopes, now upgraded for stereoscopic reconstruction to improve atmospheric shower analysis.
Contribution
The paper introduces an upgraded version of MARS that enables stereoscopic reconstruction, enhancing the analysis capabilities for MAGIC telescope data.
Findings
Successful implementation of stereoscopic reconstruction in MARS
Improved background discrimination methods
Enhanced gamma-ray source spectrum estimation
Abstract
With the commissioning of the second MAGIC gamma-ray Cherenkov telescope situated close to MAGIC-I, the standard analysis package of the MAGIC collaboration, MARS, has been upgraded in order to perform the stereoscopic reconstruction of the detected atmospheric showers. MARS is a ROOT-based code written in C++, which includes all the necessary algorithms to transform the raw data recorded by the telescopes into information about the physics parameters of the observed targets. An overview of the methods for extracting the basic shower parameters is presented, together with a description of the tools used in the background discrimination and in the estimation of the gamma-ray source spectra.
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TopicsAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena · Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies · Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae