MARS, the MAGIC Analysis and Reconstruction Software

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.

4 pages, 0 figures, submitted to the 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference, Łodz 2009

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• Improving the performance of the single-dish Cherenkov telescope MAGIC through the use of signal timing
• Performance of the MAGIC telescopes in stereoscopic mode

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