Galactic Center High-Energy View

The Galactic center and the Galactic plane are amongst the most interesting regions in the Fermi-LAT all-sky survey.

In this tutorial we will use the Fermi science tools to investigate images of the diffuse emission and sources in that region and end with a quick look at the hint for a spectral emission line at 130 GeV that has recently caused a lot of excitement because if real it would most likely consitute the first detection of dark matter.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Prepare the data
• 3. Create count and and model images with the Fermi Science Tools
• 4. Compute an excess and significance image with Python
• 5. Explore Sources
• 6. The 130 GeV line