Students should arrive with all software and example data on their laptops.

Options:

• Give a tarball with all example data.
• Give instructions or a script to download all example data from the Fermi data server.

I should look up how to improve the VM:

• Put hero user in sudoer list
• Auto-login hero user on startup
• Disable software updates
• Install IPython / astropy / ... with Fermi Python

Should go here: https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/spectrum/index.html

TODOs for the excess and significance image computation at
https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/galactic_center/python_images.html

• Use Gauss instead of top-hat filter
• Show how to do the same thing with FTOOLs and a Makefile
• Add caveat that the Li & Ma significances might be incorrect at these low counts
• Show how to plot as PNG using a script with ds9 and APLPy

Should go here: https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/lightcurve/index.html

There's a few TODOs left in the docs ... I'll try and finish those on the weekend.

TODOs for https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/galactic_center/line.html

• Check why this number (462) is different from the one I got with TOPCAT (412)!?
• Give code to plot this with ROOT
• Give code to fit power-law background with / without line and compute TS with ROOT and scipy (mention it's a toy analysis.

https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/galactic_center/explore_sources.html

All TOPCAT plots have screwed up y-axis labels and should be re-done:
https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/_images/topcat_energy_histogram.png

I think the TOPCAT but is only there for Mac Retina displays ... will report and use Linux in the meantime.

@zblz To clean up the tutorial for the future I would suggest to move back the https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/lightcurve/index.html#get-fermi-lat-data section to https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/data/index.html .

Do you agree?
Or even have time to do it?

Should go here: https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/galactic_center/

We should decide on the tutorial content soon.
Here's what we discussed a while ago:

Outline:

• Intro to Fermi and gamma-ray data analysis (Christoph or Victor?)
• Image (Christoph): high-energy all-sky count map; look at Fermi bubbles and maybe other sources using 2FGL region file (gtbin, ds9)
• Spectrum (Christoph?): Crazy diamond AGN 3C 454.3; likelihood model fit with gtlike. (use enrico or one of the other Python wrapper scripts?)
• Lightcurve (Victor): Crab nebula with aperture photometry

Other ideas:

• SED modeling / fitting with gammafit?
• Compute Crab spectrum (maybe too complicated with the three components?)
• Compute significance / trial factors for claimed dark matter annihilation emission lines
• Briefly (15 min total) introduce / highlight some other very useful Python packages? (ipython, numpy, scipy, astropy, scikit-image, scikit-learn)

A new Fermi ScienceTools version is supposed to come out very soon ... reprocessed data is already out.

I'll update the tutorial once the new software is out.

Should go here: https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/more/index.html

A first version of the installation instructions is here: https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/software/index.html

Intro should go here: https://fermi-hero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/intro/index.html

Probably best to make slides in addition ...