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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 30: Gammaastronomie I

T 30.6: Vortrag

Dienstag, 20. März 2018, 17:50–18:05, Philo-HS7

FACT -- Public Gamma-Ray Crab-Nebula Observations and Simulation — •Maximilian Nöthe and Kai Arno Brügge for the FACT collaboration — Exp. Physik 5b, TU Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Str. 4a, 44227 Dortmund, Deutschland

Pioneered 50 years ago, ground-based gamma-ray astronomy made a large step forward in the past decade. Still the instruments are run by collaborations as experiments instead of open observatories. The huge downside of this is that the data are private, preventing a lot of interesting studies being done by the astronomer's community. FACT, a gamma-ray telescope on Canary island La Palma, took the lead and publishes gamma-ray excess rates based on a quick-look-analysis of its observations in near real time.

Now FACT goes one step further towards modern astronomy and publishes a high quality Crab-Nebula observation sample recorded in 2013 together with simulations to the general public. Here, we present our Crab-Nebula sample and our simulation sample. We show where the data can be downloaded, and how it might be used. We encourage you to use our sample for education on either all or some of the following tasks: read-out calibration, signal extraction, air-shower feature generation, machine learning, gamma-ray source detection, or gamma-ray energy spectrum reconstruction.