What Will Be The Brightest GLAST Sources in the Galaxy?

Journal Article · Thu Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2007 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2757364· OSTI ID:21067258

Roberts, Mallory S. E. ^[1]

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1. Eureka Scientific, Inc., 2452 Delmer Street Suite 100, Oakland, CA 94602 (United States)

At the end of the EGRET mission, only 6 Galactic sources in the 3rd EGRET catalog had firm identifications: 5 young pulsars and a solar flare. Another dozen or so had plausible counterparts. Now, at the dawn of the GLAST era, around 30 sources detected at other wavelengths have been identified as probable or plausible counterparts. These include nearly all of the sources with significant emission above 1 GeV, which will be the sources GLAST will best be able to study. I review the current status of our knowledge of these sources based on radio, infrared, and X-ray data. These Galactic sources are destined to be the first sources firmly identified by GLAST.

• OSTI ID: 21067258
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 921, Issue 1; Conference: 1. GLAST symposium, Stanford, CA (United States), 5-8 Feb 2007; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2757364; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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GEV RANGE
PHOTON EMISSION
PULSARS
REVIEWS
SOLAR FLARES
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