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Cherenkov telescopes are observatories that deal with great variety of scientific objectives-from detection and study of galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray sources to probing some of the most intriguing questions of the fundamental physics and cosmology. However, their standard analysis tools and methods are adapted for detection of power law-like signals from astrophysical objects of conventional origin, at the expense of sources whose emissions are predicted to contain some distinctive spectral features. This chapter is devoted to the introduction of an alternative analysis method, full likelihood, optimized for the recognition of spectral features in IACT observations.
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The improvement by a factor of 1.8 is achieved without the range optimization for the conventional method (see Sect. 4.2.2).
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Aleksić, J. (2016). Full Likelihood Method. In: Optimized Dark Matter Searches in Deep Observations of Segue 1 with MAGIC. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23123-5_4
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