Béla Arwen Research Journal (Summer '22)

06/06-06/10

06/06

06/07

06/13-06/17

-- Massimo Capasso - 2022-06-16

06/27-07/01

06/27

- first time accessing Twiki Journal today

06/28

• continued my work on the SED model for 1215 with major success. Have only a little left to alter for a final fit which this is getting close to.
• read through the decadal survey from VERITAS, focusing on what has relevance to my work. Was very long and complicated so I will need to go back this resource later.

• Started to focus on the material I am going to present on Tuesday to the REU group at the REU lunch
  • Want to be more specific with the scientific theory
  • inverse Compton scattering
  • photon reabsorption
  • leptonic vs hadronic modeling
• ran into hardware issues, my computer would not let me use the trackpad or keyboard
  • went to the apple store and a new computer isn't available for a couple of months...

• my computer still had issues today but they were resolved by restarting my computer 4 times and leaving it to sit unplugged and shut down for 20 minutes
• beginning the creation of the slides for the presentation Tuesday.
  • will likely have this as something to continue working on over the break weekend (July 4th)

07/05-07/08

07/05

• finalized and presented presentation on Blazar physics to REU group

• gave up on my computer in favor of the spare
• beginning VEGAS analysis of 1ES 1215+303 for 2021
  • running a crab analysis again to make sure I can do the steps properly
  • will be applying timecuts in the method Leela recommends from thier own experience with VEGAS
• source has only 3 runs in 2021 which are of acceptable quality (only 1 other run of 'D' quality) to be included in the analysis (timecuts noted)
  • 97993
    • timecut from 10.25 - 11 min
  • 98127
  • 98346
    • timecut from 10.5 - 11.5 min and
    • timecut from 17 - 20.5 min (both)
• hope to have spectrum, skymap, and lightcurve for this source by the end of the week

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