Bug #1477

Log parabola model pull distribution gives wrong fitted prefactor

Added by Knödlseder Jürgen over 9 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

Status:ClosedStart date:06/19/2015
Priority:HighDue date:
Assigned To:Knödlseder Jürgen% Done:

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Target version:1.0.0
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Description

Pull distributions with the following logparabola XML file give a prefactor that is almost a factor two to large:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<source_library title="source library">
  <source name="Crab" type="PointSource">
    <spectrum type="LogParabola">
      <parameter name="Prefactor" scale="1e-16" value="5.878" min="1e-07" max="1000.0" free="1"/>
      <parameter name="Index"     scale="-1"    value="2.325" min="0.0"   max="+5.0"   free="1"/>
      <parameter name="Curvature" scale="-1"    value="0.074" min="0.01"  max="1000.0" free="1"/>
      <parameter name="Scale"     scale="1e6"   value="1.0"   min="0.01"  max="1000.0" free="0"/>
    </spectrum>
    <spatialModel type="SkyDirFunction">
      <parameter free="0" max="360" min="-360" name="RA" scale="1" value="83.6331" />
      <parameter free="0" max="90" min="-90" name="DEC" scale="1" value="22.0145" />
    </spatialModel>
  </source>
  <source name="Background model" type="CTAIrfBackground" instrument="CTA">
    <spectrum type="PowerLaw">
      <parameter name="Prefactor" scale="1.0" value="1.0" min="1e-3" max="1e3"    free="1"/>
      <parameter name="Index"     scale="1.0" value="0.0" min="-5.0" max="+5.0"   free="1"/>
      <parameter name="Scale"     scale="1e6" value="1.0" min="0.01" max="1000.0" free="0"/>
    </spectrum>
  </source>
</source_library>

Recurrence

No recurrence.

History

#1 Updated by Knödlseder Jürgen over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Feedback
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

The problem was introduced when doing #1466. A fixed number of iterations were used for flux integration in the log parabola model which led to a hugh inaccuracy in the result. I switched back to setting the integration precision.

#2 Updated by Knödlseder Jürgen over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Closed

Check by generating a pull distribution that this is now fixed.

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