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| 8:00 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Introductions - Liz | Intro to Fermi LAT - Liz | Intro to Fermi GBM - Cori Fletcher | GBM Science - Cori | Dark Matter - Tim |
| 10:00 | Intro to the Fermi Mission and Sky - Liz Hays | Active Galactic Nuclei - Manel Errando | Resources for Impostor Syndrome (with much gratitude to Amy Furniss) | Diffuse Gamma Rays - Tim Linden | Lecture 2 Polarization - Manel |
| 11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break (Photo!) | Break |
| 11:30 | Intro to Maximum Likelihood - Matthew Kerr | Galactic gamma-ray accelerators PeVatrons - Henrike Fleischhack | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Getting started with Fermi: Tools and Resources - Joe Eggen, Joe Asercion, Alex Reustle, Nestor Mirabal (remote), Don Horner (remote) | Getting Started with Likelihood Analysis - Liz, Joe, Matthew fermi-summer-school Github repository - See README file for instructions to download files for the analysis | Next Steps with Likelihood - Liz | Advanced Likelihood/Student Projects Working with a software repository: git basics - Henrike FindSource notebook: Example of adding a source to the LAT catalog model. Test for a detection and locate a new source. | Time domain surveys - Special guests Advanced Tutorials (: Light Curves and LCR) the LAT Light Curve Repository / Student Projects Curvature Test Example - compares 2 spectral fits of the 3C279 example from Wednesday. |
| 4:45 | End of the Day Tag-up | End of the Day Tag-up | End of the Day Tag-up | End of the Day Tag-up | End of the Day Tag-up |
| Bike rental pick-up - leave by 4:30 | Crab Feast |
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| 9:00 | The Sun - Melissa | Gamma-ray Bursts II - Peter | Advanced LAT - Melissa | 9:00 -9:30 Pack up. Feedback Form | |||
| 10:00 | MW transients - Judy | Guest lecture | GBM Analysis Tutorial - Peter | The Crab - Liz | Gamma-ray Binaries Jamie | Future science with gamma rays - Judy/Liz | |
| 11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break | ||
| 11:30 | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Complete packing up and return bikes. | ||||
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 | MW transients and joint GBM/LAT Spectral Analysis - Judy | Free Afternoon Transient analysis - Judy, Peter Finding Information about high-energy transients - Judy Free Afternoon (may trade with Mon or Wed) | Extended source fitting with LAT data (simple, advanced NBs) - Jordan Eagle Reminders about profile likelihood and errors | Advanced topics (Systematics and Checks?) Finding Information about high-energy transients - Judy GCN - Judy Student Projects | |||
| 4:45 | End of the Day Tag-up | End of the Day Tag-up | End of the Day Tag-up | ||||
| Sunset cruise |
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Student Talks and 1 Slide Summary Schedule
Friday, June 2
Claire Hinrichs - Multi-wavelength Observations of a Long-duration Flare from BL Lacertae
Pazit Rabinowitz - Search for TeV emission from unbiased survey of high-frequency-peaked BL Lacs
Stephen Kerby - The Pulsars and Blazars of the Fermi Unassociated Sources
Saturday, June 3
Tej Chand - Inverse Compton emission from relativistic particles accelerated at shear layers in relativistic jets
Hui Yang - Classification of 4FGL sources with CSCv2 and multi-wavelength surveys
Cristina Fernandez - Search of DM annihilation in Galactic Stellar Streams with the Fermi LAT
Takeba Olbemo - Fermi-LAT and Swift XRT observations of Nova Her 2021
Monday, June 5
Nicolò Cibrario - Machine Learning for the measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Inclusive Electron Spectrum with Fermi Large Area Telescope
DJ Maheso - Pulse fitting of short gamma-ray bursts and the magnetar giant flare, GRB200415A with the Norris function
Romain Maccary - Distributions of energy and peak luminosity of gamma-ray burst pulses with known redshift detected by Fermi/GBM
Paarmita Pandey - Evaluating stellar winds from Young Massive Star Clusters as Cosmic-Ray acceleration sites using Fermi gamma-ray observations
Tuesday, June 6
Mete Uzener - Bursts from Rotation Powered Magnetars Swift J1818.0−1607 and PSR J1846.4−0258
Tamador Khalil - Using machine learning to estimate Fermi GRB redshifts
Lucia Tian - BurstCube: A 6U Cubesat for detecting gravitational wave counterparts
Hend Hamed - Phase-resolved Spectroscopy of Gamma-ray Pulsars
Wednesday, June 7
Ömer Çoban - Simulations of X-ray Outburst Light Curves of Aql X-1
Ava Myers - BurstCube: A CubeSat for Gravitational Wave Counterparts
Gaetano Di Marco - Simulations of gamma rays propagation in magnetised astrophysical environments
Steven Chen
Thursday, June 8
Özge Keskin - Deep Search for and Investigations of Untriggered Gamma-Ray Transient Events Using Fermi/GBM Data
Kara Whitaker - Searching for Extragalactic TeV sources
Mark Armah - Oxygen abundance in the narrow line region of Seyfert galaxy and the metallicity- luminosity relation
Yu Luo
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Supporting Material
- Primary announcements will be sent out via an e-mail list.
- Secondary announcements, interaction between sessions. instructor-student, and student-student communication will be handled via Slack. Instructions on joining the Summer School Slack will be sent to attendees by e-mail.
- This confluence page will be the home for the schedule as well as the presentation and supporting materials.
- There are a number of video tutorials for Fermi data analysis already available. You can also find tutorials posted on the SSC web page Data Analysis area.
- Presentation and material for Josh Wood's presentation on GRB analysis
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NFyfb8gzWwRJiXMJ2h4QuMe32tRcErPp/view?usp=sharing
Interesting repositories for Fermi analysis
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- List of the currently available data products at the FSSC - Catalogs and lightcurve products in addition to links to data archives
- Public List of LAT-Detected Gamma-Ray Pulsars - Updated continuously updated list of confirmed gamma-ray pulsars. Timing models can be found
- 2nd LAT Pulsar Catalog - covers the first 3 years of data (includes timing models)
- Pulsar ephemerides for published sources - hosted at the FSSC data access website
- and lists contacts who are timing LAT pulsars in radio
- LAT Gamma-ray Pulsar Timing Models
- Find Fermi publications
- Fermi-LAT publications page
- List of rapid communications from the LAT team
- Table of Fermi GBM gamma-ray bursts
- Fermi Gamma-ray Coordinates Network (GCN) notices
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Source naming schemes and catalogs:
- General considerations
- Most gamma-ray sources are objects outside the solar system
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