GRB| Hey! What Are You Looking At?

Hey! What Are You Looking At?

The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) archives space agencies' data from missions studying electromagnetic radiation from extremely energetic cosmic phenomena (e.g., gravitational wave detections, gamma ray bursts, and supernovae). The Canadian Astronomy Data Center (CADC) is another repository containing missions studying comets, asteroids, and exoplanets among other things. Your challenge is to create a visualization tool that can help people interested in these phenomena to access the data quickly and easily.

Gamma Ray Burst Analysis

Summary

Simply mapping the detection point of gamma ray burst by Fermi Telescope to get some insights

How I Addressed This Challenge

Originally I just wanted to know how the outer space has been expanded and its layout in the past.

Gamma Ray Burst is final flash of solars and it can be detected nowadays so I thought it could be a useful clue. But in reality the log only contains the location of Fermi when detected the burst.

So I changed my goal just to visualize the location mapping world map.

Well, I could learn how the necessary data is scattered in the web (like outer space!) and necessity to know astronomy, philosophy and also programming skills XD


How I Developed This Project

Analyze GBM Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGF) Catalog and extract longitude, latitude, date and widths (it's be used as a strength of burst).

Coding with Python and develop on Google Colab (very quick and useful environment!).

How I Used Space Agency Data in This Project

Retrieve GBM Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGF) Catalog and extract following columns:


  • Longitude
  • Latitude
  • Date
  • Widths_ms
Project Demo

Histogram by Year


Projection of Gamma Ray Burst Detection

Data & Resources

Only my local python scripts XD

Tags
Gamma Ray Burst
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.