Monday, June 1
Various orientation meetings, discussed plans for the summer. Primary goal is to finish the SLSNe analyses and get more familiar with the theory.
Attended Ari's fermipy tutorial
started reading the X-ray SN2015bn paper
Tuesday, June 2
Tried to work on fermi analysis of SN2015bn, ran into error at the actual likelihood step "Attempt to set the value outside of existing bounds. Value nan is not between 1e-05 and 1000"
(was successful at preparing the preliminary files with all of the time cuts to remove contamination from the sun)
spent the rest of the day troubleshooting
I determined that I had updated Fermitools recently, so I tried undoing the update, but it didn’t make a difference.
Tried using different model files, including one which had worked in an earlier analysis, but continued to get the same error
Wednesday, June 3
Continued to work on troubleshooting fermi analysis
Met with Deivid to discuss background theory of SLSNe and the magnetar model, as well as to work on troubleshooting the error
We came up with some ideas to work on, including looking through the xml file to make sure there are no obvious issues, trying to run the analysis for other time bins, and changing the model. Also discussed strategies for how to choose to fix/free sources in the model in general.
Group meeting