Tues, May 31 | Wed, June 1 | Thurs, June 2 | Fri, June 3 | Sat, June 4 | |
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8:15 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast |
9:00 | Welcome and Fermi Mission Overview - Julie McEnery | The Fermi LAT Catalog - Benoit Lott | Gamma-ray Astrophysics Theory and Modeling - Giovanni Morlino | Active Galactic Nuclei in the LAT - Benoit Lott | Gamma-ray Astrophysics Theory and Modeling II - Giovanni Morlino |
10:00 | The Physics of Particle Detectors - Justin Vandenbroucke | MW/ MM Astrophysics: Rationale and Resources - Dave Thompson | IceCube and connections to neutrino astrophysics - Justin Vandenbroucke | Gamma-ray Bursts and Transients in the LAT - Giacomo Vianello |
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11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break |
11:30 | The Fermi Large Area Telescope - Julie McEnery | The Cherenkov Telescope Array - Justin Vandenbroucke | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries | Student Talks / 1 Slide Summaries |
12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:30 | Basics of Maximum Likelihood - Giacomo Vianello
Instructions for installing the Fermi Virtual Machine Science Tools Intro and Data Exploration (includes VM shared folder setup - UPDATE! ) - Elizabeth Ferrara Students choose a source for analysis. | Likelihood Tutorial – Jeremy Perkins The gtburst gui interface to the Science Tools - Giacomo Vianello
| Generating LAT XML Models - Elizabeth Ferrara instructions for using make3FGLxml.py script Advanced Likelihood (convergence and basic scripting tools) Data: PDG Statistics review pdf (deltaLL values in Table 38.2 on page 29) | Adaptive Binning Tutorial - Benoit Lott
Advanced Likelihood Student Projects | Fermi analysis for everyone, outreach with COSMAX - Benoit Lott
Summed likelihood tutorial, summed likelihood analysis files: summedLikeFiles.tgz Student Projects
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4:45 | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup | End of the Day Tagup |
Virden Hosted BBQ |
Week 2
Mon, June 6 | Tues, June 6 | Wed, June 8 | Thurs, June 9 | Fri, June 10 | |
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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 |
10:00 | Detecting Gamma Rays with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) - Jordan Goodman | Spectral Deconvolution - Michael Briggs | 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 | Science Highlights from HAWC - Jordan Goodman | 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 Student Projects
| Free afternoon (Large event happens at Virden in the evening) | Advanced Topics Student Projects | Advanced Topics: LAT Extended source analysis notebook 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 |
Thurs., June 2
Roberto Angioni - VLBI and gamma-ray studies of TANAMI radio galaxies abstract
Fermi-LAT radio galaxies, a class of -ray emitters, provide us with a way to study AGN jets at high-energy not heavily affected by relativistic effects. Unfortunately, this also means that these sources are faint high-energy emitters, and therefore more difficult to detect, making up only 1-2% of all LAT-detected AGN. The recent implementation of the Pass8 data analysis holds some potential to expand this sample, and also to detect new AGN classes at high energies, such as young radio sources. Many of the southern radio galaxies, in particular, are also poorly studied at radio wavelengths, at milliarcsecond resolution. During my PhD I will characterize the pc-scale properties of the radio galaxies in the TANAMI VLBI monitoring program, using multi-frequency radio imaging. I will also attempt to expand the -ray radio galaxy sample by analyzing LAT Pass8 data on a sample of candidate sources, with particular focus on the young sources in the TANAMI sample. Additionally, I will study the SED of the TANAMI AGN which are not detected in -rays, to search for common properties that might explain why they are still missed by the LAT. |
Raniere Menezes - Gamma-ray Variability of Low-luminosity AGN abstract
Low-luminosity AGN (LLAGNs) are the most common population of active galaxies at z = 0 and are therefore very important for our understanding of AGN physics. In this talk, we will report the results from our variability survey of LLAGNs in the northern hemisphere based on 7 years of LAT observations and Pass 8. In particular, we will present the light curves and associated results – including search for flares and periodicity – for the ten brightest LLAGNs in our sample. |
Fri., June 3
Nenghui Liao - Discovery of gamma-ray emission from the steep radio spectrum NLS1 B3 1441+476 abstract
Narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) usually do not host relativistic jet and the gamma-ray NLS1s are expected to be rare. All the gamma-ray NLS1s reported to date have flat radio spectra and the jets are found to be closely aligned. We analyze the first seven-year Fermi/Large Area Telescope (LAT) data of a steep radio spectrum NLS1 B3 1441+476 and report the first detection of gamma-rays in such a kind of objects. No rapid variability is observed from radio to gamma rays and additionally low core dominance (< 0.7) and Compton dominance (< 1) are found. A radiation model successfully reproducing some steep-spectrum radio quasars provides an acceptable description of SED of B3 1441+476. B3 1441+476 has a compact radio morphology and a radio spectrum turnover at ~ 100MHz. All these facts strongly suggest that B3 1441+476 hosts a mis-aligned and plausibly underdeveloped relativistic jet, which provides a valuable target to reveal the formation and evolution of relativistic jets in NLS1s. |
Michael Kreter - Blazars as Potential High-Energy Neutrino Sources abstract
Jets from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are among the best candidates for the recently detected extraterrestrial neutrino flux. Specifically, gamma-ray blazars have been predicted to yield a cumulative neutrino signal exceeding the atmospheric background above energies of 100 TeV, assuming that both the neutrinos and the gamma-ray photons are produced by accelerated protons in relativistic jets. Since the background spectrum falls steeply with increasing energy, the individual events with the clearest signature of being of an extraterrestrial origin are those at the highest energies. Hadronic AGN jet emission models predict a tight correlation between the neutrino flux and the time-variable gamma-ray emission. We develop a strategy to search for high-energy neutrinos from promising blazar jets from the TANAMI sample using the ANTARES telescope, Fermi gamma-ray light curves, and time-resolved multiwavelength SED data. |
Yuliang Xin
Sat., June 4
Mon., June 6
Wed., June 8
Really useful usage notes page for likelihood tools! [Likelihood Usage Notes]
Liz's favorite page on livetime and exposure: [http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/documentation/Cicerone/Cicerone_Likelihood/Exposure.html]
Glossary of Fermi and related jargon
Example ipython notebook from Eric Charles' lecture for statistics in astronomy grad course: Guest Lecture of Applications in Astro Statistics id 17506
These are places we've gone in the past for food:
Some useful shops:
Things to do. Ask for details.