Standardisation of data formats and adoption of open-source analysis tools in gamma-ray astronomy

by Cosimo Nigro (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE))

Wednesday 22 Jan 2025, 13:00 → 14:00 Europe/Madrid

IFAE Seminar Room (In-person)

In this seminar, I will cover recent efforts to move gamma-ray astronomy towards the adoption of a common, standardised, data format and open-source analysis tools.
Gamma-ray astronomy at the highest energies has indeed been conducted, in the last two decades, with proprietary software and analysis tools, hindering data combination and - most importantly - reproducibility of results.
I will review the effort of standardisation and the first prototypes of combined and fully-reproducible analyses.
I will put particular emphasis on the first systematic validation of this transparent pipeline (standardised data + open-source software) by the MAGIC Collaboration, and on its first public data release.