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Data formats for gamma-ray astronomy
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Background energy unit #153

Open maxnoe opened 4 years ago

maxnoe commented 4 years ago

The units of the background are defined to be : s^-1 MeV^-1 sr^-1

Everywhere else in the IRFs we use TeV as energy unit.

lmohrmann commented 4 years ago

Agreed, I would also prefer TeV^-1 here. @adonath, @registerrier, @jknodlseder - could you comment whether the science tools rely on the unit being MeV^-1?

jknodlseder commented 4 years ago

Nothing relies on a unit of MeV^-1, but MeV is the natural unit for gamma-ray astronomy ;-)

Le 30 mars 2020 à 23:14, Lars Mohrmann notifications@github.com a écrit :

Agreed, I would also prefer TeV^-1 here. @adonath https://github.com/adonath, @registerrier https://github.com/registerrier, @jknodlseder https://github.com/jknodlseder - could you comment whether the science tools rely on the unit being MeV^-1?

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