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POSTPONED: Spotlight On the Fermi Large Area Telescope Masterclass

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POSTPONED: Spotlight On

The new date will be announced via mail.

If you are generally interested in this masterclass, let us know: info@teilchenwelt.de.

We will come back to you with the new date. 

Sorry for the inconviniences. 

Carmen and Maike

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In the Spotlight On Format one particular Masterclass is presented in more detail to give an idea and one example of what you as a science communicator can actively do in Netzwerk Teilchenwelt. Also, to give an example what topics are typically explained to the students in talks or what type of hands-on excercises are possible within the different Masterclasses that exist.

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The talk & discussion is held via zoom:

Link: https://uni-bonn.zoom.us/j/64522404023?pwd=MWRGbUVJMjRScW5ZallxUU42M2V6QT09

Meeting-ID: 645 2240 4023
Code: 990582  

               

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    • 11:00 → 12:00
      Spotlight on ... 1h
      • Searching for gamma-ray bursts in the Fermi Large Telescope data with python 30m

        In this masterclass students learn to performa basic analysis of gamma-ray data provided by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) using python notebooks. The masterclass is aimed for students in the last two grades of high school and lasts one day. It consists of two parts: introduction to gamma-ray astrophysics (first half of the day) and a hands-on session of Fermi LAT data analysis in python (second half of the day).
        In the first part we talk about gamma rays in general and which astronomical sources emit them. In particular, we talk about gamma-ray bursts, which accompany creation of stellar-mass black holes. We also give a short introduction into working with jupyter notebooks. In the second part, the students use a python notebook hosted on google Colab space to search for the starting time and for the position on the sky of a gamma-ray burst (there are five datasets that the students can choose from). We provide a template of the python notebook, where the main steps are already implemented, that the students use as a starting point of their analysis. The students work in groups of 4 to 5 people and prepare a short presentation with the results of their analysis, which they show at the end of the masterclass.
        The presentation slides and the notebook template are available for downloading on the google drive:
        https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ang7xO2MZWwl91BkzQzhM6hE-JF6txrH?usp=sharing
        In the presentation I will give a short introduction to the masterclass, go through the presentations for the students, and show the notebook for the hands-on session.

        Speaker: Dr Dmitry Malyshev (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
      • Discussion 20m
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