BackgroundRateMakerBase#

class ctapipe.irf.irfs.BackgroundRateMakerBase(**kwargs: Any)[source]#

Base class for calculating the background rate.

Methods Summary

__call__(events, obs_time[, extname])

Calculate the background rate and create a fits binary table HDU in GADF format.

Methods Documentation

abstract __call__(events: QTable, obs_time: Quantity, extname: str = 'BACKGROUND') → BinTableHDU[source]#

Calculate the background rate and create a fits binary table HDU in GADF format.

Parameters:

events: astropy.table.QTable: Reconstructed events to be used.
obs_time: astropy.units.Quantity[time]: Observation time. This must match with how the individual event weights are calculated.
extname: str: Name for the BinTableHDU.

Returns: