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Signal estimation in the presence of background noise is a common problem in several scientific disciplines. An On/Off measurement is performed when the background itself is not known, being estimated from a background control sample. The frequentist and Bayesian approaches for signal estimation in On/Off measurements are reviewed and compared, focusing on the weakness of the former and on the advantages of the latter in correctly addressing the Poissonian nature of the problem. In this work, we devise a novel reconstruction method, dubbed BASiL (Bayesian Analysis including Single-event Likelihoods), for estimating the signal rate based on the Bayesian formalism. It uses information on event-by-event individual parameters and their distribution for the signal and background population. Events are thereby weighted according to their likelihood of being a signal or a background event and background suppression can be achieved without performing fixed fiducial cuts. Throughout the work, we maintain a general notation, that allows to apply the method generically, and provide a performance test using real data and simulations of observations with the MAGIC telescopes, as demonstration of the performance for Cherenkov telescopes. BASiL allows to estimate the signal more precisely, avoiding loss of exposure due to signal extraction cuts. We expect its applicability to be straightforward in similar cases.
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