The Fermi Mission will hold a virtual summer workshop series of interactive activities to learn about Fermi data analysis and lectures on gamma-ray astrophysics. The virtual school will consist of weekly online workshops and lecture presentations. These will be held on Mondays from June 7th to July 26th with the exception of July 5th. Lectures will be held on Mondays from 11 am to 12 pm (Eastern US, GMT-4) and analysis tutorial live sessions will be held on Mondays from 2-3:30 pm.
The material is designed for graduate students and early postdocs starting analysis projects in gamma-ray astrophysics that involve Fermi data and science. In addition to standard analysis using the Fermitools, we will include sessions covering pulsar analysis with the Large Area Telescope and gamma-ray burst analysis with the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. We are seeking attendees that are interested in engaging in analysis activities and interacting with instructors and the other students in group activities. There will be no registration fee, but if demand is high, we may need to limit attendance and prioritize students who are developing near-term research projects using Fermi data.
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Schedule for Summer 2021
Times are in Eastern Daylight Time - UTC−04:00
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| Mon, June 07 | Mon, June 14 | Mon, June 21 | Mon, June 28 | |
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| 11:00 | Welcome and Introduction (ppt) - Liz | Intro to Fermi LAT - Regina Caputo | Detectors for LAT - Regina | GRB Science - Judy Racusin |
| 12:00 | Intro to the Fermi Mission and Sky - Julie McEnery | Intro to Fermi GBM - Michelle Hui | IACTs - Marcos Santander | Transients with HAWC - Michelle |
| 1:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | 2:30 | Tour of Fermi Resources Getting Started with Maximum Likelihood Analysis - Pat Harding Getting Started with Fermi: Students choose a source for analysis. | Getting started with Likelihood Analysis in LAT -Generating LAT XML Models - Elizabeth Ferrara instructions for using make3FGLxml.py script Advanced Likelihood/fermiPy (data.tgz) PDG Statistics review pdf (deltaLL values in Table 38.2 on page 29) |
| 4:45 | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup |
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| Mon, July 12 | Mon, July 19 | Mon, July 26 | |
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| 11:00 | Intro to Gravitational Waves - Peter Shawhan | Gravitational wave science - Peter | Looking for point sources - Marcos |
| 12:00 | GBM transients and mulitmessenger - Michelle/Judy | Neutrinos and Gamma Rays - Marcos | Blazars and Variability - Eileen |
| 1:00 | Break | Break | Break |
| 2:30 | Free afternoon | Time Series and Matched Filtering - Peter Student Projects | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries Advanced Topics:
Student Projects | 4:45 | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | Virden hosted BBQ on the patio |
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Supporting Material
Interesting repositories for Fermi analysis
- https://github.com/fermiPy/ and documentation at http://fermipy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- https://github.com/rsnemmen
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