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8:15 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | ||||||
9:00 | Gamma-ray Astrophysics Theory and Modeling III - Giovanni Morlino | Gamma-ray Astrophysics Theory and Modeling IV - Giovanni Morlino |
| Gamma-ray Astrophysics Theory and Modeling V - Giovanni Morlino | Final Wrap-up - Liz | ||||||
10:00 | Air Showers - Jordan Goodman | High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) - Jordan Goodman | Fermi-LAT Performance - Regina Caputo | Searching for Dark Matter with the Fermi LAT - Regina Caputo | Project Results and Feedback | ||||||
11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break | ||||||
11:30 | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Spectral Deconvolution - Michael Briggs | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Future Gamma-ray Space Telescopes | Workshop Close Out | ||||||
12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | ||||||
1:30 | Advanced Topics: Working groups on special topics Summed Likelihood Useful slides on Composite Likelihood Student Projects
| Free afternoon (Large high school graduation event happens at Virden in the evening) | Advanced Topics (fermiPy?) Student Projects | Advanced Topics: Student Projects | |||||||
4:45 | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | |||||||
Crab Feast (tutorial!) |
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Wed., June 8
Miles Winter - Estimating the Millisecond Pulsar GeV Contribution in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
Toggle Cloak Cloak Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are among the most important targets in the search for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation in the cosmos. Joint-likelihood analyses using dozens of dwarfs have reached the sensitivity to test the putative dark matter signal detected from the Galactic center. While the gamma-ray flux from conventional astrophysical emission processes in dwarfs is generally assumed to be negligible, these backgrounds have not been previously quantified. Understanding possible backgrounds will become essential if a signal is detected, as we have seen in the case of the Galactic center. We present an estimate of the expected gamma-ray signal produced by millisecond pulsars in 30 dwarf spheroidal galaxies. We predict that millisecond pulsars in the most massive classical dwarfs produce a gamma-ray flux within an order of magnitude of the current Fermi Large Area Telescope sensitivity for individual targets. Moreover, we estimate that the millisecond pulsar emission in the most important ultra-faint dwarfs for dark matter searches to be more than an order of magnitude below current upper limits.
- Peng Fang-kun
- Roberta Del Vecchio
- Yunfeng Liang
- Shang Li
Supporting Material
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Example ipython notebook from Eric Charles' lecture for statistics in astronomy grad course: Guest Lecture of Applications in Astro Statistics id 17506
Group Photos
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Things to do and Eat
These are places we've gone in the past for food:
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