Several Norwegian institutes are involved in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) - a next level observatory for gamma ray astronomy. We have regular meetings and currently focus on Dark Matter searches with CTA. Here, we collect some information for collaboration.

Information for beginners

Below are some links to introduce you to what we are doing.

CTA obseratory website: https://www.cta-observatory.org/

The software we use: https://docs.gammapy.org/0.18.2/index.html

Suggested reading: Chapter 4 of the paper "Science with CTA" (nice introduction, then it gets more specific) https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07997

Short video about how CTA works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRHFQP_SjU
Scientific talk about the CTA observatory (status and perspective): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yXTQbF9hsg&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=UlissesBarresdeAlmeida
Introductory talk about DM searches at CTA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2tyOIsy1kQ
Talk about Searching for DM with CTA (at least the intro is nice then it gets rather specific in the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idixr03VTDs&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=CsabaBalazs
Talk on gamma-ray, CTA and gammapy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL8TWYcF0h8&ab_channel=LabExUnivEarthS
More detailed talk on gammapy by Axel (this can be used for getting started with gammapy. The jupyter notebooks that he discusses can be downloaded here: https://github.com/escape2020/school2021/tree/main/gammapy first he uses the gammapy-overview.ipynb and then gammapy-cta-gc.ipynb): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsAI0TDV5B0&ab_channel=ESCAPE_EU
If you want a deeper understanding of the underlying python packages, here you can find talks on astropy, scipy, matplotlib, and numpy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC05braEQdP2rCSUamHm9I_Q/videos with the corresponding notebooks here: https://github.com/escape2020/school2021
Equatorial coordinate system explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvXTUcYVXzI

Registering new arrivals

The group leader has to add the name to this list: https://portal.cta-observatory.org/Bodies/ProjectOffice/Lists/People/Grouped.aspx and then an email has to be sent to Tiziana to ask for an account for the CTA web services.