General Information

Get in touch

You'll need to request the following:

• JIRA Account (to access Confluence wiki pages)
• SLAC Account (to access the SLAC data servers)

Background Information

• DC1 Kickoff and DC1 Closeout - February 2004

• DC2 SW Workshop, Closeout Meeting, and Analysis Results- June 2006

• Visit the Service Challenge page in Confluence to review the goals.

• Then visit the Service Challenge I Workshop Agenda.

Science Tools

The Science tools section of the workbook contains many interesting tutorials on the main science tools. Select the ones more related to your analysis.

Installing the Science Tools for the Service Challenge

To download and install the Science Tools, see:

Blue SC1 navigation bar --> Install SC1 Code

Caution! For SC1, v7r6p1, or above is required.

Note: The Science Tools use the FITS file format extensively for input and output of data tables and images, and you will want to install some utilities for viewing the contents of FITS files and making images and plots from them.

Several utilities are listed on the FITS Image Viewers and Format Converters page.

Among those listed, fv and ds9 will be used in presentations at the DC2 workshop. Both are available for Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

Data Products

For an introduction to the types of LAT data, see LAT Data Products and FITS Files by David Band.

Glast Data Server's LAT Data - Summary Ntuple - same data different formats for those who want to see the full set of events or who want to view them in an event display or want to do their analysis in ROOT.

Event Classes

To learn about the properties of different DC2 event classes, see:

Trigger and Filter settings and Event classes

Note: The initial, 1 year obssim dataset for the Service Challenge has Class A Events only (front and back).

Data Formats

This section has not yet been developed. In the meantime, the following link may be useful:

FITS Format Definition Working Group