PoS(ICRC2021)1387 International th 12–23 July 2021 July 12–23 37 SICS CONFERENCE SICS CONFERENCE Berlin | Germany Berlin Berlin | Germany Cosmic Ray Conference Ray Cosmic 8 ICRC 2021 THE ASTROPARTICLE PHY ICRC 2021 THEASTROPARTICLE PHY https://pos.sissa.it/ 0, 5 Di Venere, Longo, F., 4,: 2 ONLINE and Serini, D. ℎ de Palma, F., 3 Latronico, L., edition of the Fermi Masterclass was 6, 9 Cℎ Mereu, I. 5 Cutini, S., 1,2 Gasparrini, D., 5 Mazziotta, M.N., Bonino, R., 3,8 0, 5 Gargano, F., 0, 5 Lubrano, P., Bissaldi, E., ∗ 0, 5 0, 5 , [email protected] Fusco, P.G., International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021) Presenter 0, 5 ∗ th The Fermi Masterclass is anthe unique international opportunity outreach to discover event the designed worldanalogous of to High-Energy experiences give Astrophysics. high-school Since previously 2017, students proposed following research institutes, mostly guided in by the France, Nationalimmersion" Institute various day for of Nuclear Italian dedicated Physics lectures (INFN), universities and organizedby and exercises a the in LAT "full which experiment aboard students the analysed Fermi real satellite.Sweden data and Over collected the the years, U.S. foreign institutes also from joinedwith Slovenia, each the other effort, as in giving real international the collaborations. students The the 4 unique opportunity to interact Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione diUniversitá Roma degli Studi “Tor Vergata”, di I-00133 Trieste Roma, and Italy INFNUniversitá - degli Trieste, Studi Italy di Perugia, Italy Space Science Data Center - Agenzia SpazialeE-mail: Italiana, Via del Politecnico, snc, I-00133, Roma, Italy Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica "M.Merlin" dell’Universitá degliVia Studi Amendola di Bari 173, e I-70126 del Bari, Politecnico Italy diIstituto Bari Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione diDipartimento Torino, di I-10125 Fisica, Torino, Universit‘a Italy degli Studi diIstituto Torino, Nazionale I-10125 di Torino, Italy Fisica Nucleare, Sezione diDipartimento Perugia, di I-06123 Matematica Perugia, e Italy Fisica “E. DeIstituto Nazionale Giorgi”, di Universit‘a del Fisica Salento, Nucleare, Sezione Lecce, di Italy Istituto Lecce, Nazionale I-73100 di Lecce, Fisica Italy Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy scheduled to take place in Aprilwas 2020. initially postponed, However, due and to finally the took place pandemicwe as emergency, present the an the Masterclass online structure edition and on organization December ofexercises accessible 10th, this 2020. to first virtual the Here event, students including through an dedicated interactive web part platforms. of Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons 8 9 4 2 : 6 ℎ 0 1 3 5 © Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Loparco, F., 37 July 12th – 23rd, 2021 Online – Berlin, Germany Rainó S., The First Fermi Masterclass Online Edition 2020 L., PoS(ICRC2021)1387 Rainó S. 2 Masterclass 2020 foreseen in April 2020 had to be Fermi Masterclass Online Edition Introductory lectures in the morning,astrophysical where phenomena, students and learned about about the Fermi high-energy experiment. gamma-ray Hands-on afternoon, during which students could follow real-time tutorialsFermi-LAT in data. order to analyze Final video-conference together with all othercould institutions, be during presented which and the discussed. results obtained The Fermi Masterclass is an international program offered to high-school students to study The Fermi Masterclasses take advantage of the unique properties of the Fermi-LAT data: they Starting 2015, Fermi Masterclasses have been organized in France (Bordeaux and Montpellier): Since 2017, Fermi Masterclasses have been organized in Italy by the Italian National Institute Each Masterclass focused on different Fermi Sources and Scientific Highlights through the In November 2020 Italy experienced a second lockdown and we had to definitively put aside Fermi • • • postponed. 3. cosmic objects by performing basicdirect analyses guidance of of scientists Fermi-LAT from data the Fermi usingprogram Collaboration. organized professional by This the software project CERN and draws International from Particle the Physicsthousands Masterclass Outreach of Group students (IPPOG), involving across the world. are public, all-sky, promptly availableScience Tools and distributed fairly by the simple Science to Supportdeveloped understand. software Center, several tools groups and Starting in different examples fromnon-experts. countries to the have allow Fermi simple inspection and analyses of Fermi data by 2. Past Editions researchers moved to the schoolsanalysis software to had meet to be the installed students on and school PCs work (Virtual with machines – themfor COSMAX Nuclear on [1]). Physics (INFN) Fermi in data. several cities(Slovenia). (Bari, The Perugia, Over Torino, Trieste), the joined years, by Nova[Sweden]). more Gorica The institutes program joined included: (Rome [Italy], Jacksonville [USA], Stockholm years [2]: active galacticand nuclei neutrinos (AGN), from gamma-ray cosmic-ray sources, bursts pulsars anddue as gravitational shown to in waves, the the gamma-rays posters Covid-19 in1. Figure pandemic, Unfortunately, the the idea of aproposing “standard” yet Fermi another online Masterclass event for at high schoolof our students involvement. institutes. who could However, based be “saturated” We on with were havingthat this could already initially form be conceived easily very carried and doubtful out developed remotely, we of interactive decided exercises to go for a national online edition [3], involving Fermi Masterclass 2020 1. Introduction PoS(ICRC2021)1387 Rainó S. 3 Masterclasses starting from 2017 Fermi Screenshot of the Facebook event Posters of the Figure 2: Figure 1: Skymap» – L. Di Venere from Bari, «AGN Flare Analysis» – F. de Palma from Lecce) and & The event lasted 3 hours and included 2 general talks («Gamma-Ray Astrophysics» – E. Bissaldi from Bari, «The Fermi Mission»orbit – L. Latronico from Torino),a 2 final interactive «competition» excercises («Fermi among in studentsawarded on a Fermi the plate Kahoot3). (Figure platform [5]. The best 3 students were also Fermi Masterclass 2020 students from various italian regions.2, that As allowed a us platform to we manageZoom used a events large Zoom number can in of webinar be participants mode,number very easily of see well students broadcasted Figure without per "interference“ on school/class since and Facebookparticipants! more or than 600 YouTube students [4]! signed up. We In the set end no we had limit on 550 the PoS(ICRC2021)1387 Rainó S. 4 (“Science for all”) [6] based on the experience with past ScienzaXTutti The Fermi plate won as a reward by one of the best students participating to the masterclass. Retrieve the data and create tables Explore ft2 spacecraft files Convert time formats Explore satellite altitude and position Plot a Skymap showing the satellite pointing direction as time passes4) (Figure Galactic sources Extragalactic sources Gamma ray bursts During the first Italian lockdown in April 2020, we had created an interactive path on a dedicated Both exercises proposed to students during the online Masterclass are based on Google Colab With the first interactive exercise [8], the students were able to: With the second interactive exercise [9], students learned ho to create maps and lightcurves. We had developed also interactive exercises on the Google Colab platform based on Python • • • • • • • • Figure 3: INFN outreach website called Hosted Jupyter notebook service that requires nocomputing setup to resources. use, Since while providing it free would accessused have to only been google already too available slow standard python to modules. installGoogle the Some Drive files Science (ft1, were Tools ft2, pre-calculated on exposure,...). and Colab, stored we on They analyzed a portion of theDecember sky 2008 around and the January blazar 2009. 3C 279 They during were a able bright to: flaring phase between 3.1 Interactive exercises Fermi Masterclasses and aimed to guideand students the to Fermi autonomously experiment, discover in gamma-ray particular: astronomy and on public Fermi fits files [7]. Fermi Masterclass 2020 PoS(ICRC2021)1387 Rainó S. 5 Skymap showing the satellite position as determined by students in the first interactive exercise. Left: count map, Right: light curve of the blazar 3C279 during its flaring phase between December Retrieve the data Explore the ft1 files Select the correct interval and RoI Create maps and lightcurves5) (Figure Create a gif with a succession of maps highlighting the source variability Our experience with the Online Fermi Masterclass 2020 proved to be very successful. We • • • • • Figure 4: received very positive feedback from students and teachers. Our outlook for 2021 is to plan a Fall Figure 5: 2008 and January 2009, as determined by students in the second interactive exercise 4. 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