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.

Schedule for Summer 2021

Times are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−04:00).

Technical Help Sessions

We will have two sessions via Teams the week before the start of the workshops to help people get setup with the tools. Please try to install the FermiBottle Docker Container, which contains all the software needed for the workshops and go through the Summer School Checklist to make sure the container is functioning correctly.


Thursday, June 3Friday, June 4
10am-11amTech Help SessionTech Help Session

June 2021 


Mon, June 7Mon, June 14Mon, June 21Mon, June 28

Lectures

11  am - 12 pm EDT

Welcome Notes

Intro to Fermi and the Fermi Sky

Liz Hays & Judy Racusin

AGN Observations

Manel Errando

Reading and questions for before the lecture

Welcome Notes
Lecture Slides

Statistics for Astrophysics

Daniela Huppenkothen

Bayesian Statistics and Modeling

Introduction to the the Concept of Likelihood and Its Applications

Data Analysis Recipes: Probability Calculus for Inference

Particle Acceleration

Yajie Yuan

Excerpt from High Energy Astrophysics by Longair

Lecture Slides

IntermissionGatherGatherGatherGather
Analysis Tutorials
2 pm - 3:30 pm EDT

Getting started with Fermi Analysis

Joe Eggen

Data Exploration Tutorial Video

Data Exploration Notebook

Data Quicklook Notebook

TXS 0506+056 Notebook
Q&A from the tutorial session

First steps with fermipy

Liz+

Welcome Notes and Group Exercise

Setup instructions for fermipy tutorial notebook

Slido Q&A from the tutorial session

Notes on LAT likelihood and a statistical exercise

Liz/Daniela

Fermi Summer School 2021 Tutorial 3 Instructions

Welcome Slides

Notes on Likelihood in LAT

Google Form (Sign up for a source/topic project)

Slido Q&A from the tutorial session

Light Curves

Liz/Sara Buson

Light Curve examples for group exercise

Notes on Light Curves

Slido Q&A from tutorial session

July 2021  


Mon, July 12Mon, July 19Mon, July 26
Lectures
11  am - 12 pm EDT

The Galactic Center

Mattia Di Mauro

Previously recorded talk on the Galactic Center

Ground-based Gamma-ray Observations

Marcos Santander

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy (introductory review) - G. Di Sciascio (2019)

TeV Source Catalog (TeVCat)

A couple recent highlight results and references:

- PeV gamma rays from the Crab Nebula. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/07/13/science.abg5137

- GRB detections in the VHE range: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07249, https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02510

- CTA Science Book: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07997

Wrap up and Next Steps + Group Photo

Student Spotlight Presentations

“Fermi-LAT Analysis of TeV PWN” – Jooyun Woo

“Spectral and Temporal Analysis of GRB210410A detected by Fermi-LAT/GBM” – DJ Maheso

"Searching for High-Energy Neutrinos from Magnetars with IceCube" – Ava Ghadimi

IntermissionGatherGatherGather
Analysis Tutorials
2 pm - 3:30 pm EDT

Pulsar tutorial

Matthew Kerr

Slido Q&A from the tutorial session

GBM Data Tools

Adam Goldstein+

Using the GBM Tools video tutorial

GBM Data Tools Documentation and Notebooks

Slido Q&A from the tutorial session

Diagnostics and refining models

Sign up for follow-up office hours 

Please fill out the Survey so that we have some feedback for future events.

Slido Q&A from the tutorial session

Office hours will be held on Gather with various team members throughout the summer.

Office HoursDate/Time (EDT)HostTopics
Week 1Thurs. Jun 10 10-11 amSSC Members, Liz, JudyTech Support, Fermitools, Fermi Mission
Week 2Wed. Jun 16 2-3 pmJeremy PerkinsFermipy, python scripting
Week 2Thurs. Jun 17 10-11 amSSC MembersHelp desk
Week 3Wed. Jun 23 2-3 pmJeremy PerkinsFermipy, python scripting
Week 3Thurs. Jun 24 10-11 amSSC MembersHelp desk
Week 4Thurs. Jul 1 10-11 amSSC MembersHelp desk
Week 5Thurs. Jul 15 10-11 amSSC MembersHelp desk
Week 6Thurs. Jul 22 10-11 amSSC MembersHelp desk
Week 7Thurs. Jul 29 10-11 amSSC MembersHelp desk

Tools

Supporting Material



Interesting repositories for Fermi analysis