Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In the past decade imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays such as H.E.S.S., MAGIC, VERITAS, as well as the Fermi-LAT space telescope have provided high quality images and spectra of the γ-ray universe.Currently the γ-ray community is preparing to build the nextgeneration Cherenkov Telecope Array (CTA), which will be operated as an open observatory.Gammapy v0.3 (available at https://github.com/gammapy/gammapyunder the open-source BSD license) is a new in-development Astropy affiliated package for high-level analysis and simulation of astronomical γ-ray data.It is built on the scientific Python stack (Numpy, Scipy, matplotlib and scikit-image) and makes use of other open-source astronomy packages such as Astropy, Sherpa and Naima to provide a flexible set of tools for γ-ray astronomers.We present an overview of the Gammapy scope, development workflow, status, structure, features, application examples and goals.We would like Gammapy to become a community-developed project and a place of collaboration between scientists interested in γ-ray astronomy with Python.
DOI: 10.22323/1.236.0789
Institutions: Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University College London, Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, Université Paris Cité, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2561362434