After some work, I've gotten the physics of results plotting script provided by Dennis working to compare the ARASim outputs from an AREA run to a set of reference data for the ARA bicone (provided by Alex). Among the outputs is a histogram of of events triggered vs cos(theta_nu) (attached here). This is the plot that was previously presented in GENETIS talks in the physics of results discussion.

Here I compared the best individual from the AREA results (Blue- "source_2") that I have on hand (only the ARASim output files from the most recent generation ran are currently saved) with the ARA bicone reference data (Red- "source_1"). Both datasets included a total of 150,000 NNU. Note that the AREA run used was a single frequency test, meaning that the radiation pattern was held constant for all frequencies in the band.

Also attached for reference are the gain pattern of the associated individual from the AREA output and the violin plot of the run producing the data.