Gamma Ray Telescopes in the Class Room (PW-Gamma)5 ECTS
(englische Bezeichnung: Gamma Ray Telescopes in the Class Room)
(Prüfungsordnungsmodul: Physics elective courses)

Lehrveranstaltungen:

• • Gamma Ray Telescope in the Class Room
    (Vorlesung, 4 SWS, Stefan Funk et al., Einzeltermine am 1.10.2018, 2.10.2018, 14:00 - 23:59, CIP-Pool in der Physik; 4.10.2018, 5.10.2018, 9:00 - 17:00, CIP-Pool in der Physik; 15.10.2018, 22.10.2018, 12:00 - 18:00, CIP-Pool in der Physik)

Empfohlene Voraussetzungen:

Experience with running software from command line (on linux).

Inhalt:

At first the students will get an introduction to ground-based gamma-ray astronomy and will then use this knowledge for analysing real data sets by themselves. Modern analysis software will be used for this purpose. To sum up their results the students will write a homework assignment of about 5 pages. It is supposed to resemble a publication in a major scientific journal.

• Overview of particles in cosmic rays

• Introduction to ground-based gamma-ray astronomy with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs)

• Observation of gamma-ray sources

• Analysis of data with ROOT-based software packages

• Understanding the quality of the taken data

• Interpretation of results

• Writing a scientific publication
  

Lernziele und Kompetenzen:

Students

• acquire hands-on experience in applying modern analysis methods to real gamma-ray data sets

• explain the relevant topics of the lecture

• write a homework assignment in the style of a scientific publication
  

Literatur:

• Stefan Funk, Space- and Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Astrophysics, arXiv:1508.05190 [astro-ph.HE], 2015

• Trevor C. Weekes, Very high energy gamma-ray astronomy, IoP Series in astronomy and astrophysics, 2003
  

Bemerkung:

May be applied to specialisation 'Astrophysics and astroparticle physics' in the physics master program starting winter term 2018/19.

Verwendbarkeit des Moduls / Einpassung in den Musterstudienplan:

1. Physics (Master of Science)
   (Po-Vers. 2018w | NatFak | Physics (Master of Science) | Master's examination | Physics elective courses)

Studien-/Prüfungsleistungen:

Gamma Ray Telescopes in the Class Room (Prüfungsnummer: 715117)

(englischer Titel: Gamma Ray Telescopes in the Class Room)

Prüfungsleistung, Übungsleistung, benotet, 5 ECTS

Anteil an der Berechnung der Modulnote: 100.0 %

weitere Erläuterungen:
Course assessment: homework assignment, 5 pages

Prüfungssprache: Englisch

Erstablegung: WS 2018/2019, 1. Wdh.: WS 2018/2019 (nur für Wiederholer)

1. Prüfer:

Stefan Funk