Studying the High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sky with GLAST

Technical Report · Wed Nov 20 04:00:00 EST 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/808688· OSTI ID:808688

Kamae, Tsuneyoshi ^[1]

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1. SLAC

Building on the success of the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) will make a major step in the study of such subjects as blazars, gamma-ray bursts, the search for dark matter, supernova remnants, pulsars, diffuse radiation, and unidentified high-energy sources. The instrument will be built on new and mature detector technologies such as silicon strip detectors, low-power low-noise LSI, and a multilevel data acquisition system. GLAST is in the research and development phase, and one full tower (of 25 total) is now being built in collaborating institutes. The prototype tower will be tested thoroughly at SLAC in the fall of 1999.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 808688
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-9598
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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