• CRPropa:
  • continued trying to plot skymap

• Meeting with Qi to learn more about DQMs and talk about CRPropa
• CRPropa:
  • small sphere observer
  • tried to plot skymap

• Run stage 6 for RX J0648.7+1516

• Organized runlist and timecuts for RXJ0648
• Run download for RXJ0648

• Made a multi-messenger astronomy cartoon

• run stage 6 for RGB J0710 again, one run for alpha = 0.01
• read about superluminal motion

• Organized runlist for 1ES 1727 and run download

• SRI poster session

• Practiced for SRI poster session

• Made some slides for group meeting
• Run stage 6 for RGB J0710 again, deleting one run

• Worked on poster, final touches

• Worked on poster:
  • made some cartoons
  • worked on methods, results, conclusion

• Used Qi's jupyter notebook to generate SEDs with veritas and fermi-lat analysis
• Worked on poster:
  • wrote introduction, hypothesis

• Added 1ES 0229+200 VEGAS analysis to wiki
• Rerun analysis for MS 1221

• RGB J0710: check if stage 6 finished
  • run again with star exclusion = 7
• light curve for 1ES 0229
• Finish slides with readings

• Run stage 6 for MS 1221 (again, because had to unable zenith correction)
• Run stage 6 for 1ES 0229 (again, changing star exclusion magnitude to 8 because of 3 stars)
• Run stages 1-5 for RGB J0710

• Attended Amy Furniss talk
• Run stage 6 for MS 1221
• Run stage 6 for 1ES 0229 (again, using Li&Ma calculation)

• Meeting with Reshmi, Qi, Colin, and Gwen about SRI poster
• Run stage 6 for 1ES 0229 (again, changing star exclusion magnitude to 7 because of star Ari 26)

• Run stage 6 for 1ES 0229
• Download and run stages 1-5 for MS 1221
• Prepared files for RGB J0710 VEGAS analysis

• Set up jupyter notebook with python 2.7 kernel to run CRPropa
• Run some CRPropa example notebooks

• Installed CRPropa!
• Set up jupyter notebooks with gammapy env

• Attended Sara Buson talk (Barnard Astroparticle Colloquium Series)
• Meeting with Prof. Mukherjee, Qi, and Colin to decide plans fro SRI poster:
  • Decide which sources I will do the analysis
  • Read https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.01349.pdf
  • CRPropa to make some plots to the "Physics side" of my poster
• Made spreadsheet with number of runs to each source to decide which I'll analyze this summer

• Started looking into Barnard poster session
• Read "A unifying view of the spectral energy distributions of blazars"

• Slides for the gp meeting
• Had to re-run 1ES0229 stages 1-5:
  • wrote a python script to remove all 3-telescope runs and the RHV runs

• Attempted to install crpropa --> many issues and couldn't figure out

• Attended Reina Maruyama talk
• Meeting with Elisa and Qi
• Read about Extragalactic magnetic fields

• Read paper about the first detection of 3C 279 at VHE
• Read about Extragalactic background light

June 28th (Tuesday)

• Attended talk about RARAF
• Read "Systematic physical characterization of the gamma-ray spectra of 2FHL blazars"
• Continued the troubleshooting for 1ES0229
  • download for lines 147-154 worked separately
  • submitted jobs to condor

• Prepared some slides for the group meeting
• Had some troubles with download of 1ES0229 (many sources took the whole weekend and failed) and reached out to Colin and Deivid:
  • run without the lines 147-154 --> worked, submitted the jobs

• Read "Cut-off Characterization of Energy Spectra of Bright Fermi Sources: Current instrument limits and future possibilities":
  • They analyzed 3 sources: 3C 454.4, 3C 279, and the Vela pulsar
• Started download of 1ES0229

• Attended VERITAS collaboration meeting
• Attended the talk "Hunting for ghost particles at the South Pole"

• Attended VERITAS collaboration meeting
• Organized runlist and timeCuts for 1ES0229 --> wrote a python script to make it faster (+400 runs) and sent to Qi so he could crosscheck

• Attended VERITAS collaboration meeting
• Attended Henrike Fleischhack's talk about HAWC Water Tanks
• Talked with Qi:
  • start by doing an analysis on 1ES0229
• Started writing about the scientific motivation

• Attended VERITAS collaboration meeting
• Undergraduates meeting with prof. Mukherjee
• Some edits to Sonal's proceeding do ICRC
• Talked with Qi over Slack about some VEGAS analysis for blazars

• Ari's Thesis presentation
• Read more about FSRQs
• Prof. David Savin's talk about astrochemistry

• Completed the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Training
• Read Sonal's Overleaf document

• Search more about the fours sources (when they were discovered, distance, location in the sky, etc.)

• Meeting with Manel and Patel
• Attended the Introduction to the Barnard Summer Colloquium Series
• Read about VEGAS (especially about upper limits )

• Run Stage 6 analysis again for the fours sources because I had to set UL_PhotonIndex = -3.5 and UL_DifferentialEnergy = 0
• Added results to wiki page
• Talked with Colin through Slack

• Run Stage 6 analysis again for two sources (GB6 J0043, S3 0218) with different parameters (UL_PhotonIndex and UL_DifferentialEnergy)
• Read articles sent by Manel about TeV emission from quasars

• Run Stage 6 analysis again for two sources (GB6 J0043, S3 0218) with different parameters (UL_PhotonIndex and UL_DifferentialEnergy)
• Read Ari's thesis (initial chapters)

• Meeting with Manel and Sonal
• Add FSRQs results to twiki

• Read "Observing the Energetic Universe at Very High Energies with the VERITAS Gamma Ray Observatory"

• Rerun stage6 for 3C 454.3 with Ma & Li calculation
• Started Barnard Responsible conduct of research (RCR) training
• Prepared slides for Thursday meeting with Manel and Sonal

• Run Stage 6 for PKS 0736
• Run Stage 6 for 3C 454.3

• Started analysis for 3C 454.3
• Submitted jobs for condor

• Run Stage 6 for GB6 J0043
• Meeting with Colin: setted up Jupyter notebooks and looked at plotting code
• Started analysis for PKS 0736

• Tried to figure out why S30218 Stage 6 did not finish after more than 15hrs (talked with Colin through Slack)

• Started run for S30218 stage 6

• Tried to run stage 6 for S3 0218 and GB6 J0043+3426, but had some problems
  • talked with Colin and Deivid through Slack and got some help

• Continued GB6 J0043+3426 VEGAS analysis
• Started S3 0218 VEGAS analysis

• Continue writing VEGAS tutorial (stage 6)
• Started GB6 J0043+3426 VEGAS analysis
  • T1 warning: missing telescope 1 data taking during observation

• Failures in the Crab run --> permissions problem in 75245
• Meeting with Colin and Deivid --> run Stage 6

• Started to write VEGAS tutorial
• Talked with Deivid and Colin through Slack:
  • discovered one of the jobs submitted Friday failed
  • resubmitted the job

May 14th (Friday)

• Meeting with Colin and Deivid to get started with VEGAS analysis:
  • started to run Crab analysis

Massimo Capasso - 2021-05-25

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