Hands-on tutorial on gamma-ray astronomy for the 13th IDPASC School

Material for the gamma-ray astronomy tutorial at the 13th IDPASC school.

Pre-requisites

Checking beforehand the basic usage of Astropy's coordinates and the very first part of Gammapy's maps and regions tutorial will make easier to go throught these tutorials (it will not take more than 15 mins).

Downlaod the data for this tutorial

Almost all the data we need for this tutorial are available in the gammapy-data repository.
Download the repository and set (in your .bashrc or .zshrc file) a GAMMAPY_DATA evironment variable pointing to this path

export GAMMAPY_DATA=<path to where you downloaded the gammapy-data repository>

we will also use some LST's Crab Nebula observations recently released to the public.
You can download them from zenodo.
Download the .zip file in this same repository and unzip it

mkdir crab_lst_data
tar -xzvf 11445184.zip -C crab_lst_data

Download and install the software for this tutorial

Download gammapy version 1.2 following these instructions.
It is recommended to create a conda environment.

Binder

You can run these notebooks in MyBinder, remember to download the data there though!