GLAST: Physics Goals And Instrument Status

Conference · Tue Nov 07 00:00:00 EST 2006

OSTI ID:894932

Carson, Jennifer E

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is a space-based observatory scheduled to launch in October 2007 with two instruments: (1) the GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM), sensitive to photon energies between 8 keV and 25 MeV and optimized to detect gamma-ray bursts, and (2) the Large Area Telescope (LAT), sensitive to gamma rays between 20 MeV and 300 GeV and designed to survey the gamma-ray sky with unprecedented sensitivity. We describe the LAT and the GBM. We then focus on the LAT's capabilities for studying active galactic nuclei.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 894932
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-12184; astro-ph/0610960; TRN: US0700353
• Resource Relation: Conference: To appear in the proceedings of 2nd Workshop on TeV Particle Astrophysics, Madison, Wisconsin, 28-31 Aug 2006
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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