GLAST [electronic resource] : Physics Goals And Instrument Status

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2006.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Additional Creators:: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is a space-based observatory scheduled to launch in October 2007 with two instruments: (1) the GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM), sensitive to photon energies between 8 keV and 25 MeV and optimized to detect gamma-ray bursts, and (2) the Large Area Telescope (LAT), sensitive to gamma rays between 20 MeV and 300 GeV and designed to survey the gamma-ray sky with unprecedented sensitivity. We describe the LAT and the GBM. We then focus on the LAT's capabilities for studying active galactic nuclei.

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E 1.99:slac-pub-12184
slac-pub-12184

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Published through SciTech Connect.
11/07/2006.
"slac-pub-12184"
"astro-ph/0610960"
To appear in the proceedings of 2nd Workshop on TeV Particle Astrophysics, Madison, Wisconsin, 28-31 Aug 2006.
Carson, Jennifer E.

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AC02-76SF00515

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