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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 | Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor and Gravitational Wave Follow-up - Michael Briggs | 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 Intro 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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Mon., June 6
Nicolas Vasquez - Developing Water Cherenkov Detectors in Quito, Ecuador
Toggle Cloak Cloak The Ecuadorian Andes located around zero latitude offers altitudes over 3000 m.a.s.l. which is an advantage to the detection of astroparticles. The aim of this work is to present the progress done by our research team on the developing WCD. Starting with an introduction of astroparticle detection, we present the simulations in CORSIKA of atmospheric extensive showers originated from primary particles with energies within 10 GeV and 100 TeV in Quito. We continue with the instrumentation used in our detectors to finally present some results of the muon detection in our city.
Sara Coutiño - Extragalactic background light study with HAWC HAWC
Toggle Cloak Cloak The extragalactic background light (EBL) is all the electromagnetic energy released by resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources since the recombination era. Its intensity and spectral shape provide information about the evolution of galaxies throughout cosmic history. Since direct observations of the EBL are very difficult to perform, the study of the interaction between the low energy EBL photons and high energy photons from distant extragalactic sources becomes relevant to constrain the EBL intensity. The main goal of this study is to investigate the opacity of the EBL to gamma rays by observing a sample of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory. Current gamma-ray observations up to 20 TeV performed by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) have constrained the EBL intensity in the 0.150 μm region. HAWC, which monitors the gamma-ray sky in the 100 GeV to 100 TeV energy range, will be able to detect about 10 AGN with the first year of HAWC data based on the extrapolation of steady-state spectra from the GeV band to TeV, and thus constrain the EBL in the poorly measured 1100 μm range.
- Yuanzhu Wang
- Yongbo Yu
- Christian Johnson
Wed., June 8
Miles Winter - Title Estimating the Millisecond Pulsar GeV Contribution in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
Toggle Cloak Cloak Abstract
- Peng Fang-kun
- Roberta Del Vecchio
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 LiangYunfeng 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
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Things to do and Eat
These are places we've gone in the past for food:
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