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 Tues, May 30Wed, May 31Thurs, June 1Fri, June 2Sat, June 3
8:15BreakfastBreakfastBreakfastBreakfastBreakfast
9:00 Welcome and Fermi Mission Overview - Julie McEneryHAWC Instrument and Science - Jordan GoodmanFermi Observations of Gamma-ray Bursts and Gravitational Wave Counterparts - Judy Racusin

Fermi GBM & LAT GRB Data Analysis - Judy
data files
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specfiles (only if you don't manage to make your own)

Cosmic Rays and Dark Matter - Fiorenza
10:00Radiation processes and Air Showers - Jordan GoodmanImaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes: From ADC counts to gamma-ray images and spectra - Stefan Ohm

Gamma-ray emission from star-forming systems - Stefan

 

Cosmic Rays and Dark Matter - Fiorenza Donato

Multivariate analysis techniques and machine-learning algorithms - Stefan 

Links about machine learning

11:00BreakBreakBreakBreak (Photo!)Break
11:30The High-Energy Gamma-ray Sky - Liz Hays

Intro to the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Jeremy Perkins

 Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries 

Compton Telescopes - Eric Grove

12:30LunchLunchLunchLunchLunch
1:30

Installation for Fermi VM 

Science Tools Intro and Data Exploration - Elizabeth Ferrara

Students choose a source for analysis.

Likelihood Analysis in LAT -

Jeremy Perkins

Quiz tool link: kahoot.it

 

 

Generating LAT XML Models - Elizabeth Ferrara

instructions for using make3FGLxml.py script

Advanced Likelihood/fermiPy (data.tgz)

fermiPy documentation

PDG Statistics review

pdf (deltaLL values in Table 38.2 on page 29)

Advanced Topics

LAT Analysis Checklist

Student Projects

Advanced Topics:

LAT Analysis Checklist

Pulsar Analysis

Galactic source techniques

Lightcurve analysis http://fermipy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced/lightcurve.html#lightcurve

Student Projects

 

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NICER launch 5:55 PM

Crab Feast


 
NICER launch at 5:07 PM

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 Mon, June 5Tues, June 6Wed, June 7Thurs, June 8Fri, June 9
8:15BreakfastBreakfastBreakfastBreakfastBreakfast
9:00Particle Acceleration Mechanisms I - Yajie YuanParticle Acceleration Mechanisms II - YajieAGN and Blazars in the gamma-ray sky - BettaTheory and Modeling of Pulsar Wind Nebulae - Yajie

Wrap-up Summary


10:00Fermi LAT Catalogs - Elisabetta Cavazzuti

Magnetars - George Younes

Fermi GBM as a Transient Monitor - Colleen Wilson-HodgeAnalyzing GBM Continuous data - ColleenProject Results and Feedback
11:00BreakBreakBreakBreakBreak
11:30 Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries 

 Dark  Dark Matters - Regina Caputo 

 Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries AMEGO - Regina CaputoWorkshop Close Out
12:30LunchLunchLunchLunchLunch
1:30

Advanced Topics: Working groups on special topics

Student Projects

Free afternoon

ASDC

On-line analysis tools tutorial - Betta

 (topcat, 3C 454.3 lc)

Advanced Topics:

Systematics: Effective Area

Student Projects

NICER - Colleen

Advanced Topics:

Student Projects

 
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    Virden BBQ @ 6:00Sunset Dolphin Cruise 

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  • Suttiwat Madlee - Earth’s gamma-ray emission in geographical coordinates with Fermi-LAT data 

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    The Earth’s gamma ray emission is produced from the interactions between cosmic rays (CRs), high-energy particles in space, and the Earth’s upper atmosphere. These gamma rays are measured by the Large Area telescope (LAT), the instrument onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) which was launched in 2008 to orbit the Earth at the altitude of ~540 km. Here we present preliminary results of the Earth’s gamma-ray intensity, which for the first time has been analyzed in geographical coordinates, using the latest version of LAT data. This study will provide better understanding of the geomagnetic field, the Earth’s upper atmosphere, and CRs.

  • Carlo van Rensburg -  Spatially  Spatially-Dependent Modelling of Pulsar Wind Nebula G0.9+0.1  

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    We present results from a leptonic emission code that models the spectral energy density of a pulsar wind nebula by solving a Fokker-Planck-type transport equation and calculating inverse Compton and synchrotron emissivities. We have created this time-dependent, multi-zone model to investigate changes in the particle spectrum as they traverse the pulsar wind nebula, by considering a time and spatially-dependent magnetic field, spatially-dependent bulk particle speed implying convection and adiabatic losses, diffusion, as well as radiative losses. Our code predicts the radiation spectrum at different positions in the nebula, yielding the surface brightness versus radius and the nebular size as function of energy. We compare our new model against more basic models using the observed spectrum of pulsar wind nebula G0.9+0.1, incorporating data from H.E.S.S. as well as radio and X-ray experiments. We show that simultaneously fitting the spectral energy density and the energy-dependent source size leads to more stringent constraints on several model parameters.

  • Tyler Williamson - Title
  • Laila Vleeschower
  • Sheridan Lloyd

Monday, June 5

  • Janeth Valverde - B2 1215+30 Long Term Gamma-ray Study with Fermi-LAT & VERITAS  

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    We characterize the blazar B2 1215+30 (z=0.131) in the high (HE) and very high (VHE) gamma- ray energy domains. Blazars are a type of active galactic nucleus, very powerful systems with a super massive black hole at their center that outshines the rest of the galaxy, and whose relativistic jets point approximately in the direction of the Earth. These extreme objects are prolific gamma-ray emitters and all their subclasses are particularly variable at all wavelengths. The study of blazar variability at different wavelengths is crucial to test models attempting to identify the nature of the jet particles and the scale of the gamma-rays emission zones. For B2 1215+30, the largest HE flares detected by Fermi-LAT occurred in Oct. 2008 and Feb. 2014, this last one having its brightest counterpart at VHE detected by VERITAS.

    We will report on our progress on the temporal and spectral analysis of the BL Lac blazar B2 1215+30, with all the Fermi-LAT and VERITAS available data, from year 2008 to 2016. The detailed Fermi-LAT light curve we have obtained will allow us to run variability tests, which in turn might provide us with some clues about the physical processes underneath.

  • Marcin Marculewicz - Weak emission-line quasars (WLQ)  

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    Weak emission-line quasars (WLQ) are objects with enormous weak emission-lines (e.g. EW (Ly a) ≤ 10Å ; Diamond-Stanic et al. 2009). The properties of WLQs are different from those of BL Lac objects but consistent with normal AGNs (Plotkin et al. 2010). There are several explanations of weakness ofemission- lines. The first possibility is existence of a cold accretion disk (Laor & Davis 2011) or a radiatively inefficient accretion flow (Yuan & Narayan 2004). The next explanation is a presence of shielding gas, which could be a part of a slim disk. This part prevents ionizing photons from reaching the broad emission-line region(BELR). The following description provides Shemmer et al. (2010) who propose the BELR is built anemic. Hryniewicz et al. (2009) proposed the next explanation that perhaps in all weak emission line quasars the activity has just started. Any explanation of WLQ phenomena is still not given.

      
  • Fabio Carfado

  • Monica Breed
  • Hannes Thiersen
  • Isabella Mereu

Wednesday, June 7

  • Brent Limyansky - Analyzing Pulsar “Glitches” Using the Fermi LAT  LAT 

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    Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars which produce pulsed emission across the electromagnetic spectrum. Abrupt and unpredictable changes in emission frequency are known as “glitches”. In young pulsars, theory predicts that glitches are the result of a starquake-induced change in geometry of the neutron star’s crust. These types of glitches have the potential to produce gravitational waves, although they are not believed to be detectable with current technology. In rotation-powered pulsars, glitches are believed to come from interactions between surface and interior regions of the neutron star. Glitches are challenging to observe with pointed instruments, as the time of their occurrence cannot be predicted. The Fermi LAT, which continually monitors over 200 gamma-ray pulsars, is not hindered in this manner and is therefore well suited to observation and study of glitches. In this project, I will examine previously detected pulsars over the full time range of the mission. Glitches will be identified and catalogued, with subsequent analysis having the potential to investigate the glitching mechanism, the nature of neutron star interiors, and glitches as a source of gravitational waves.

  • Tiffany Lewis - A  A First-Principles Radiative Transport Model for Steady-State Blazar Spectra  Spectra 

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    Blazars are luminous sources across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, but the spectral formation mechanisms in these sources are not well understood. We have developed a new model for blazar spectra in which we numerically integrate the first-principles electron transport equation to generate the electron number distribution with respect to energy.  Our transport model considers shock acceleration, adiabatic expansion, stochastic acceleration due to MHD waves, Bohm diffusion, synchrotron radiation, and inverse-Compton radiation.  We implement the full Klein-Nishina cross-section for interactions with photons from dust and 26 individual lines from the broad line region.  We use the solution for the electron distribution to predict multi-wavelength SED spectra for 3C 279. This new self-consistent model provides an unprecedented view into the jet physics at play in this source, especially the relative strength of the shock and stochastic acceleration components and the size of the acceleration region.  We show that our new Compton + synchrotron blazar model is the first to successfully fit the FermiLAT gamma-ray data for this source based on a first-principles physical calculation.

  • Sambid Wasti - Title
  • Hester Schutte
  • Cori Fletcher
  • Tiaan Bezuidenhout
  • Tejaswita Sharma
  • Isabella Mereu


Supporting Material

 

Liz's favorite page on livetime and exposure: [http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/documentation/Cicerone/Cicerone_Likelihood/Exposure.html]

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