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Since its start in 2014, the lightweight open source Python library Gammapy has come a long way to become a popular data analysis package for high-energy astrophysics. Selected as the official CTAO Science Analysis tool, it is also an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 B. Khélifi , R. Terrier , A. Donath , A. Sinha , Q. Remy , F. Pintore

We employ an efficient method for identifying gamma-ray sources across the entire sky, leveraging advanced algorithms from Fermi p y, and cleverly utilizing the Galactic diffuse background emission model to partition the entire sky into 72…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Y. C. Xiang , P. Feng , X. F. Lan

Gammapy is a Python package for high-level gamma-ray data analysis built on Numpy, Scipy and Astropy. It enables us to analyze gamma-ray data and to create sky images, spectra and lightcurves, from event lists and instrument response…

Characterizing the temporal variability of astrophysical sources is key to understanding the underlying physical processes driving their emissions. This work introduces a gammapy_SyLC, a Python package that offers tools to simulate and fit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 Claudio Galelli

We explore several models which might be proposed to explain recent possible detections of high-energy (TeV) gamma rays in association with low-energy gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Likely values (and/or upper limits) for the source energies in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. C. Fragile , G. J. Mathews , J. Poirier , T. Totani

Observations with H.E.S.S. revealed a new source of very high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays above 100 GeV - HESS J1825-137 - extending mainly to the south of the energetic pulsar PSR B1823-13. A detailed spectral and morphological analysis of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 S Collaboration , S. Funk , J. A. Hinton , O. C. deJager

Shapley value is a widely used tool in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), as it provides a principled way to attribute contributions of input features to model outputs. However, estimation of Shapley value requires capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Cheng Lu , Jiusun Zeng , Yu Xia , Jinhui Cai , Shihua Luo

Detailed morphological and spatially resolved spectral studies reveal the very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray aspects of this object with unprecedented precision. We confirm previous results obtained in a survey of the Galactic Plane in 2004.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Aharonian

Statistical properties of photon count maps have recently been proven as a new tool to study the composition of the gamma-ray sky with high precision. We employ the 1-point probability distribution function of 6 years of Fermi-LAT data to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-01 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Alessandro Cuoco , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Regis

We present an updated catalog of TeV gamma-ray sources based on the fifth pass of data from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory. This release benefits from improved event reconstruction and nearly three additional years of…

Photon counts statistics have recently been proven to provide a sensitive observable for characterizing gamma-ray source populations and for measuring the composition of the gamma-ray sky. In this work, we generalize the use of the standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 H. -S. Zechlin , A. Cuoco , F. Donato , N. Fornengo , M. Regis

A gamma-ray line production calculation in astrophysics depends on i) the composition and energy source spectrum of the energetic particles, ii) the propagation model, and iii) the nuclear cross sections. The main difficulty for model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Parizot , R. Lehoucq

Aims. H.E.S.S. observes an increasing number of large extended sources. A new technique based on the structure of the sky map is developed to account for these additional structures by comparing them with the common point source analysis.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-12 D. Göring , M. A. Klatt , C. Stegmann , K. Mecke

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite is exploring the gamma-ray sky in the energy range above 20MeV. We have developed a method to reconstruct the energy spectra of the gamma rays detected by the Fermi LAT instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. N. Mazziotta

When it comes to identifying or to characterizing gamma-ray sources, X-ray observations are of paramount importance. Correlated X-and-gamma-ray flux variations are a powerful identification tool, if the gamma-ray source is unidentified, or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-25 Patrizia A. Caraveo

The open-source Python package Gammapy, developed for the high-level analysis of gamma-ray data, requires gamma-like event lists combined with the corresponding instrument response functions. For a morphological analysis, these data have to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-23 Simone Mender , Lena Linhoff , Tarek Hassan , Cosimo Nigro , Dominik Elsässer

diffpy$.$morph addresses a need to gain scientific insights from 1D scientific spectra in model independent ways. A powerful approach for this is to take differences between pairs of spectra and look for meaningful changes that might…

The light we receive from distant astrophysical objects carries information about their origins and the physical mechanisms that power them. The study of these signals, however, is complicated by the fact that observations are often a…

High energy gamma-ray astronomy has recently made significant progresss through ground-based instruments like the {\it H.E.S.S.} array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The unprecedented angular resolution and the large field of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Heinrich J. Voelk
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