Auger Open Data and the Pierre Auger Observatory International Masterclasses
E. Santos (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)

TL;DR
The paper describes the Pierre Auger Observatory's open data portal, educational outreach efforts, and tools for public engagement, promoting transparency and understanding of cosmic-ray physics through accessible data and interactive notebooks.
Contribution
It introduces a new open data portal with curated datasets and educational resources, enhancing public engagement and scientific outreach in cosmic-ray research.
Findings
Portal hosts 10% of cosmic-ray data with DOIs on Zenodo
Public can reproduce key results via Jupyter notebooks
Over 550 students engaged in outreach activities in 2023
Abstract
The Pierre Auger Observatory has a public data policy following the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). We aim to share the data with the scientific community as part of the multi-messenger effort at different levels and for educational activities to engage the general public. Following the first portal created in 2007, a new portal hosted at \url{https://opendata.auger.org} was established in February 2021. The portal is regularly updated and comprises 10\% of the recorded cosmic-ray data organized in various datasets, each with a specific DOI provided by Zenodo. Moreover, a catalog with the 100 most energetic events is available. The portal adopts a ``dual'' concept, offering not only the download of public data but also a series of Jupyter notebooks. These notebooks allow the general public to reproduce some of the most important results obtained by…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAstronomical Observations and Instrumentation · History and Developments in Astronomy · Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
