air-showers-exercises

This repository contains exercises to familiarize graduate students with the detection of extensive air shower induced by cosmic particles.

Getting setup

To get started, setup a folder on your machine to work in:

• mkdir -p $HOME/GradDays2019/AstroParticle

Get the git-repository with exercises on your local machine:

• cd $HOME/GradDays2019/AstroParticle
• git clone https://github.com/harmscho/air-shower-exercises.git

In case you have not a working python + ipython notebook installation we recommend to setup a python enviroment using the setup-python.sh script:

• cd $HOME/GradDays2019/AstroParticle/air-shower-exercises
• source setup-python.sh

This will download the mini-conda package python package manager and install the packages that can be used for the exercise. If you already have a working python installation (with ipython notebooks, scipy and matplotlib), you can skip this part.

After running this script successfully, you should be in the grad-days enviroment. You can get out of that enviroment by typing

• conda deactivate

To set up the enivorment to work on the exercices:

• export PATH=$HOME/GradDays2019/AstroParticle/conda/bin:$PATH
• source activate grad-days

Note, you can add the first command to your $HOME/.bashrc (or equivalent), such that the conda command is always in your $PATH.

Testing the enviroment