The ASTRI Mini-Array calibration software

The ASTRI Mini-Array is an international project led by the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) to build and operate an array of nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes designed to study Galactic and extragalactic sources in the multi-TeV energy range. It is located at the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife, Spain) where the first telescope, ASTRI-1, is already operative. The ASTRI Mini-Array calibration plan requires several calibration tasks for optics and electronics. These tasks are performed through dedicated software, part of the ASTRI Mini-Array Data Processing System, that perform the analysis of the data acquired during calibration procedures and extract the parameters needed for the optimal system configuration, the system monitoring and the Cherenkov data processing. In this contribution, we present the status of the ASTRI Mini-Array calibration software. The software is composed of three main Python packages: astricaltools library, aimed to provide the fundamental algorithms and methods for the calibration of the ASTRI cameras, as well as for low-level data inspection and visualization; V-TOOLS, designed to perform optics calibration using variance data; and A-MuSoft, devoted to the analysis of the muon rings to determine the telescope optical throughput and to monitor the optical point spread function.

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2025-09-24
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https://doi.org/10.22323/1.501.0769
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Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
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Abstract

The ASTRI Mini-Array is an international project led by the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) to build and operate an array of nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes designed to study Galactic and extragalactic sources in the multi-TeV energy range. It is located at the Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife, Spain) where the first telescope, ASTRI-1, is already operative. The ASTRI Mini-Array calibration plan requires several calibration tasks for optics and electronics. These tasks are performed through dedicated software, part of the ASTRI Mini-Array Data Processing System, that perform the analysis of the data acquired during calibration procedures and extract the parameters needed for the optimal system configuration, the system monitoring and the Cherenkov data processing. In this contribution, we present the status of the ASTRI Mini-Array calibration software. The software is composed of three main Python packages: astricaltools library, aimed to provide the fundamental algorithms and methods for the calibration of the ASTRI cameras, as well as for low-level data inspection and visualization; V-TOOLS, designed to perform optics calibration using variance data; and A-MuSoft, devoted to the analysis of the muon rings to determine the telescope optical throughput and to monitor the optical point spread function.

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