Miles Garcia Research Journal (Summer '21)

6/7:

Met with Reshmi, Massimo, and Brian to discuss research goals for the summer
Began installation and setup of VEGAS from Daniela's tutorial
Created Twiki account
From Group meeting: Continued to finalize research goals. Access to VERITAS GRB spreadsheet.

6/8:

Continued to try and set up VEGAS.
Met with Daniela about VEGAS setup issues, refered these issues to Deivid over Slack also.
Began looking at GCN's and VERITAS GRB Spreadsheet

6/9:

Got access to VERITAS data from UCLA for VEGAS setup.
Continued setting up VEGAS (Stages 1-5 look good now)
Continued to cross-reference VERITAS-observed GRB's with GCN's
Looked through 2020 VERITAS/VHE Observations & pSCT Presentation slides (Summer 2020 Colloquium Series)

6/10:

Ran VEGAS Stage 6 with Crab Data, worked properly this time (multiple runs included)
Continued to cross-reference VERITAS-observed GRB's with GCN's (went through all 2021 GRBs not on the spreadsheet)
Attended Reshmi's talk for Barnard Lecture Series
Looked through plots generated by VEGAS stage 6 for Crab Data

6/11:

Began looking at 2020 GRBs not on the spreadsheet (only 2)
Started working on REU Intro Presentation for Monday's REU Lunch (General overview of research, background, goals, people working with)
Produced basic plots on GRB data-- Number of observations per year, number of LAT and Swift observations (total and by year)
Began putting together slides for Monday group meeting (update on VEGAS setup, next steps: choosing which GRBs to analyze)
Read VERITAS Inauguration article (https://cerncourier.com/a/veritas-telescopes-celebrate-first-light/), HESS first VHE GRB article (https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/pages/home/som/2019/12/#Ref3), and first TeV GRB article (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1750-x) and wrote down key points about GRBs to add to Monday group meeting slides

6/12:

6/14:

Started looking at Peter Cogan's thesis to look at VEGAS Analysis stuff
REU Lunch-- presented my project information, background on GRBs
Group Meeting-- presented info on VERITAS GRB Observations, next steps (choosing what GRBs to analyze), and readings I did on GRBs. Came up with some steps for deciding what other GRBs to do analysis on.

6/15:

Looked at spreadsheet of VERITAS GRB Observations to get an idea of what information is missing (and can be filled in)-- specifically for Swift GRBs
REU Lecture on Dark Matter
Met with Reshmi about accessing VERITAS data (elogs, loggen), steps to get started with choosing GRBs
Read parts of article Colin sent about short GRBs from BNS
Started looking at Tevcat & VERITAS data

6/16:

Gathered information from Tevcat and GCN's on the 4 VHE GRBs listed on Tevcat. Plotted the GRBs on a map of the galactic plane.
Began running VEGAS analysis of the most recent GRB detection from last Friday (GRB210610B). Runlist, time cuts and extra options provided by Deivid in order to have an accurate cross-check. Using VEGAS v2.5.7 because Deivid reported potential issues in v2.5.8.
Read Taylor Aune's slides on GRBs from 2010 talk.

6/17:

Updated Tevcat GRB spreadsheet with information about time after initial observation in which VHE rays were still observed (how long after a GRB is observed can we still see VHE?)
Worked with astropy to create the same mapping of GRBs as the automatic plot from Tevcat
Still waiting on VEGAS (or maybe it has failed?)

6/18:

Updated Tevcat GRB spreadsheet with information about time after initial observation in which VHE rays were still observed (how long after a GRB is observed can we still see VHE?)
Worked with astropy to create the same mapping of GRBs as the automatic plot from Tevcat
Still waiting on VEGAS (or maybe it has failed?)

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Topic revision: r7 - 2021-06-21 - MilesGarcia