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Title: Status of GLAST, the Gamma-ray Large-area Space Telescope

Conference ·
OSTI ID:877488

GLAST is a satellite-based observatory consisting of the Large-Area Telescope (LAT), a modular 4 x 4-tower pair-conversion telescope with a field-of-view greater than 2 steradians, capable of measuring gamma-ray energies in the range 20 MeV to 300 GeV, and the GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM), a set of NaI and BGO detectors covering 8 steradians and sensitive to photons with energies between 10 keV and 25 MeV, allowing for correlative observations of transient events. The observatory is currently being constructed and is scheduled to be launched in August 2007.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
877488
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-11566; TRN: US0601509
Resource Relation:
Conference: Prepared for 3rd Workshop on Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-ray Experiments, Cividale del Friuli, Italy, 30 May - 1 Jun 2005
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English