GLAST Large Area Telescope Multiwavelength Planning
Gamma-ray astrophysics depends in many ways on multiwavelength studies. The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has started multiwavelength planning well before the scheduled 2007 launch of the observatory. Some of the high-priority multiwavelength needs include: (1) availability of contemporaneous radio and X-ray timing of pulsars; (2) expansion of blazar catalogs, including redshift measurements; (3) improved observations of molecular clouds, especially at high galactic latitudes; (4) simultaneous broad-band blazar monitoring; (5) characterization of gamma-ray transients, including gamma ray bursts; (6) radio, optical, X-ray and TeV counterpart searches for reliable and effective sources identification and characterization. Several of these activities are needed to be in place before launch.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 896933
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-12264; astro-ph/0611652; TRN: US200705%%78
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Presented at The Multi-Messenger Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources: 3rd Workshop on the Nature of Unidentified High-Energy Sources, Barcelona, Spain, 4-7 Jul 2006
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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