Speaker
Dr
Christoph Deil
(MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)
Description
Collaborations managing Cherenkov telescope arrays (presently H.E.S.S., VERITAS,
and MAGIC) own their data and software in private servers, only accessible to
their members. However, the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will
operate as an observatory, calling for powerful high-level science tools usable
by the whole astronomical community.
We report on the efforts within the H.E.S.S. collaboration to export our data
and instrument response functions to the standard astronomical FITS format and
to use and contribute to open-source gamma-ray astronomy data analysis packages
(Gammalib and ctools, Astropy and Gammapy, Sherpa) as well as spectral energy
distribution modeling codes (GamERa, Naima).
We present a few examples of H.E.S.S. data analysis with these open source
tools, as well as a summary of our experience with the FITS data formats and
open source tools, comparing them to the HESS-internal data formats and tools.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 552 |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | H.E.S.S. |
Author
Dr
Christoph Deil
(MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)
Co-authors
Mrs
Anneli Schulz
(DESY, Zeuthen)
Mr
Axel Donath
(MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)
Dr
Ignasi Reichardt
(APC, Paris)
Mr
Isak Delberth Davids
(North-West University (Potchefstroom, South Africa))
Dr
Joachim Hahn
(MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)
Mr
Manuel Paz Arribas
(Humboldt University, Berlin)
Dr
Michael Mayer
(Humbolt University, Berlin)
Mr
Philipp Willmann
(FAU, Erlangen)
Dr
Régis Terrier
(APC, Paris)
Dr
Stefan Ohm
(DESY, Zeuthen)
