1 June 2020:

10:30 - 11:00 Orientation meeting with Reshmi

• Primary contacts: Ari, Qi, Reshmi

• FermiPy analysis of BLacs - SEDs and light curves

  • Potentially publish light curves

• Schedule weekly meetings with Ari & Qi added to the 2 group meetings.

  • Group: Mon & Wed @ 2

  • Ari: Thurs @ 2

11:00 - 2:00

• Reading and annotating article: “On the distribution of fluxes of gamma-ray blazars: hints for a stochastic process” - in OneNote drive

• Logging back into Slack, Nevis Twiki, tehanu (on MobaXterm)

  • Still need access to the VERITAS site

2:00 - 3:00 Group Meeting Notes:

• FermiPy Tutorial moved to 4pm

• Potential summer colloquium for physics & astro researchers at Barnard & Columbia

• Summer Research Journal

  • On Nevis Twiki

  • Track progress and analysis for undergrads

• VERITAS site is up!

  • Need to write a short bio for the ‘People’ section

4:00 - 5:00 FermiPy tutorial - Ari

• Notes taken in my notebook

• The session is recorded for future reference

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2 June 2020

12:45 Meeting with Reshmi and Ari

• Project outline

• Completing source names from TeVCat

• Reviewing FermiPy Tutorial and familiarizing more with working in MobaXterm / tehanu

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3 June 2020

• Reviewing Unix/Linux tutorials > continuing working on familiarizing within tehanu

• Following FermiPy configuration steps

  • Question: how do you determine the start/stop time of the analysis?

    • Asked Ari > we will ask in group meeting

    • I assume there is a time range picked for the GeV -TeV project

• Writing short bullet points for my research interests. I sent them to Kayla for the website.

• Using 4FGLto match the source names with the 4FGL names

  • I need either the name or the coordinates for the config file.

  • Question: If I cannot find the 4FGL name (from TeVCat), does that mean that it is not in the catalog?

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4 June 2020

9am meeting with Reshmi and Elisa

• Default (monthly) bins on light curves. Then do 3 day bins.

• Date range: Fermi mission start date April 2020

• April 2020 - stochastic processes paper: plots of dN/df are interesting analyses on six of the strongest quasars. Try to run these plots for these fermi sources. Run their analysis, apply modeling.

  • Try to extend the plots to include both fermi and veritas flux.

  • Integrated flux, independent of time. Flux in bins. Counts per bin. One step further > dn/df plots

• Next week’s goal: ramp up on fermi analysis. Fermilight curve one first source: flux distribution, dn/df plot. Geibles 2004 paper.

• Flux vs time plot: how to convert into a fits file > Terek could know.

• Make slides for paper: data used, analysis used, conclusions made.

Start time: 234316801.000 (MET) = 2008Jun05

End Time: 607392005.000 (MET) = 2020Apr01

Configuring analysis:

The original prefix is "3C279" which is for the quasar. So if I am doing analysis on 1ES 2344+514 the prefix should be "1ES2344"

Summer 2020 Research Journal Article text. -- Gwen LaPlante - 2020-06-03 ---++ Comments