Gammapy - A Python package for {\gamma}-ray astronomy

TL;DR

Gammapy is an open-source Python package designed for high-level analysis and simulation of gamma-ray astronomical data, supporting the gamma-ray astronomy community with flexible tools built on the scientific Python stack.

Contribution

It introduces a new, community-driven Python package for gamma-ray data analysis, integrating multiple open-source astronomy tools for the first time.

Findings

Provides analysis tools for real and simulated gamma-ray data

Demonstrates features through example analyses

Supports collaboration within the gamma-ray astronomy community

Abstract

In the past decade imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays such as H.E.S.S., MAGIC, VERITAS, as well as the Fermi-LAT space telescope have provided us with detailed images and spectra of the gamma-ray universe for the first time. Currently the gamma-ray community is preparing to build the next-generation Cherenkov Telecope Array (CTA), which will be operated as an open observatory. Gammapy (available at https://github.com/gammapy/gammapy under the open-source BSD license) is a new in-development Astropy affiliated package for high-level analysis and simulation of astronomical gamma-ray data. It is built on the scientific Python stack (Numpy, Scipy, matplotlib and scikit-image) and makes use of other open-source astronomy packages such as Astropy, Sherpa and Naima to provide a flexible set of tools for gamma-ray astronomers. We present an overview of the current Gammapy features and example analyses on real as well as simulated gamma-ray datasets. We would like Gammapy to become a community-developed project and a place of collaboration between scientists interested in gamma-ray astronomy with Python. Contributions welcome!