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Title: Fermi Large Area Telescope Operations: Progress Over 4 Years

Abstract

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched into orbit in June 2008, and is conducting a multi-year gamma-ray all-sky survey, using the main instrument on Fermi, the Large Area Telescope (LAT). Fermi began its science mission in August 2008, and has now been operating for almost 4 years. The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory hosts the LAT Instrument Science Operations Center (ISOC), which supports the operation of the LAT in conjunction with the Mission Operations Center (MOC) and the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC), both at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The LAT has a continuous output data rate of about 1.5 Mbits per second, and data from the LAT are stored on Fermi and transmitted to the ground through TDRS and the MOC to the ISOC about 10 times per day. Several hundred computers at SLAC are used to process LAT data to perform event reconstruction, and gamma-ray photon data are subsequently delivered to the FSSC for public release with a few hours of being detected by the LAT. We summarize the current status of the LAT, and the evolution of the data processing and monitoring performed by the ISOC during the first 4 years of the Fermi mission, togethermore » with future plans for further changes to detected event data processing and instrument operations and monitoring.« less

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1044618
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-15123
TRN: US1203382
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at2012 Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 7/1/2012-7/6/2012
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; COMPUTERS; DATA PROCESSING; FERMILAB ACCELERATOR; MONITORING; PHOTONS; SPACE FLIGHT; STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER; TELESCOPES; Astrophysics,ASTRO

Citation Formats

Cameron, Robert A, and /SLAC. Fermi Large Area Telescope Operations: Progress Over 4 Years. United States: N. p., 2012. Web.
Cameron, Robert A, & /SLAC. Fermi Large Area Telescope Operations: Progress Over 4 Years. United States.
Cameron, Robert A, and /SLAC. 2012. "Fermi Large Area Telescope Operations: Progress Over 4 Years". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1044618.
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title = {Fermi Large Area Telescope Operations: Progress Over 4 Years},
author = {Cameron, Robert A and /SLAC},
abstractNote = {The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched into orbit in June 2008, and is conducting a multi-year gamma-ray all-sky survey, using the main instrument on Fermi, the Large Area Telescope (LAT). Fermi began its science mission in August 2008, and has now been operating for almost 4 years. The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory hosts the LAT Instrument Science Operations Center (ISOC), which supports the operation of the LAT in conjunction with the Mission Operations Center (MOC) and the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC), both at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The LAT has a continuous output data rate of about 1.5 Mbits per second, and data from the LAT are stored on Fermi and transmitted to the ground through TDRS and the MOC to the ISOC about 10 times per day. Several hundred computers at SLAC are used to process LAT data to perform event reconstruction, and gamma-ray photon data are subsequently delivered to the FSSC for public release with a few hours of being detected by the LAT. We summarize the current status of the LAT, and the evolution of the data processing and monitoring performed by the ISOC during the first 4 years of the Fermi mission, together with future plans for further changes to detected event data processing and instrument operations and monitoring.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1044618}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Thu Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
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