GLAST: physics goals and instrument status
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
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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Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0610960,
title = {GLAST: physics goals and instrument status},
author = {Jennifer E. Carson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0610960},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
to appear in Proceedings of TeV Particle Astrophysics II, 28-31 August 2006, Madison, WI, USA