Gamma-ray Observations of X-ray binaries

Elizabeth Ferrara, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Lecture 1:

• Gamma-ray production in various source classes
• Producing variability on the gamma ray regime

Lecture 2:

• Brief history of space-based gamma-ray astronomy
• Detecting gamma rays
• Fermi mission and instruments

Lecture 3:

• Variable Gamma-ray Sources
• Blazars, GRBs and other Extragalactic sources
• Pulsars, Binaries and Novae

Lecture 4:

• Data structure for the Fermi-LAT
• Temporal signatures in Fermi data
• Concerns for data analysis of time-variable sources

Lecture 5:

• Data Analysis with the Fermi-LAT
• Maximum Likelihood
• Gamma-ray Catalogs and why we need them

Lecture 6:

• Fermi-LAT Data analysis example