The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope and Gamma-Ray Bursts

Journal Article · Fri May 19 04:00:00 EDT 2006 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2207971· OSTI ID:20798701

McEnery, Julie; Ritz, Steve ^[1]

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1. NASA/GSFC, Lab for Astroparticle Physics, MailCode 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771 (United States)

The Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) is a satellite-based observatory to study the high energy gamma-ray sky. The main instrument on GLAST, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a pair-conversion telescope that will survey the sky from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV With the GLAST launch in 2007, the LAT will open a new and important window on a wide variety of high energy phenomena, including supermassive black holes and active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts, supernova remnants and cosmic ray acceleration and dark matter. A second instrument, the GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM), greatly enhances GLAST's capability to study GRB by providing important spectral and timing information in the 10 keV to 30 MeV range. We describe how the instruments, spacecraft and ground system work together to provide observations of gamma-ray bursts from 8 keV - 300 GeV and to provide rapid notification of bursts to the wider gamma-ray burst community.

• OSTI ID: 20798701
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 836; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
BLACK HOLES
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES
COSMIC RAY DETECTION
GAMMA DETECTION
GAMMA RADIATION
GEV RANGE
INTERNAL PAIR PRODUCTION
KEV RANGE
MEV RANGE
MONITORS
NONLUMINOUS MATTER
SATELLITES
SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
TELESCOPE COUNTERS