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Triple-Gauss PSF format

Open cdeil opened this issue 8 years ago • 5 comments

I've added a formula for the triple-Gauss PSF: http://gamma-astro-data-formats.readthedocs.org/en/latest/irfs/psf/psf_3gauss/index.html as well as some background info on radial PSFs: http://gamma-astro-data-formats.readthedocs.org/en/latest/irfs/psf/index.html#point-spread-function

I think some discussion / checks are needed:

  • [ ] Is the formula correct? I took it from the HAP code that fits the PSF and added the 1/pi factor to go from dP/dr^2 (which is what HAP fits) to dP/d\Omega (which is what Fermi and OGIP use as PSF value).
  • [ ] Is there a more sane / stable parametrisation for multi-Gauss (look what PSFEx do) that we want to adopt?
  • [ ] Can the presentation / explanations be improved?
  • [x] @mimayer - Does the PA exporter use the same parametrisation? ==> there is no 3-gauss exporter in PA.
  • [x] @JouvinLea - Do you use multi-Gauss in HAP-FR exporters? Same parametrisation? ===> This is work in progress, HAP-FR can put whatever we decide here.
  • [ ] I'd like to check the Gammapy code
  • [ ] @mimayer - Is gammalib.GCTAPsf2D consistent with this definition?

cdeil avatar Jan 13 '16 08:01 cdeil