Autores
Martínez Castro Jesús Alberto
Título Standardized Formats for Gamma-Ray Analysis Applied to HAWC Observatory Data
Tipo Congreso
Sub-tipo Memoria
Descripción 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021
Resumen A wide range of data formats and proprietary software have traditionally been used in y-ray astronomy, usually developed for a single specific mission or experiment. However, in recent years there has been an increasing effort towards making astronomical data open and easily accessible. Within the y-ray community this has translated to the creation of a common data format across different y-ray observatories: the "gamma-astro-data-format" (GADF). Based on a similar premise, open-source analysis packages, such as Gammapy, are being developed and aim to provide a single, robust tool which suits the needs of many experiments at once. In this contribution we show that data from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory can be made compatible with the GADF and present the first GADF-based production of event lists and instrument response functions for a ground-based wide-field instrument. We use these data products to reproduce with excellent agreement the published HAWC Crab spectrum using Gammapy. Having a common data format and analysis tools facilitates joint analysis between different experiments and effective data sharing. This will be especially important for next-generation instruments, such as the proposed Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) and the planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons.
Observaciones Proceedings of Science, v. 395
Lugar Virtual, online
País Indefinido
No. de páginas Article number 727
Vol. / Cap.
Inicio 2021-07-12
Fin 2021-07-23
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