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The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is an observatory designed to perform gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range 20 MeV to 300 GeV, with supporting measurements for gamma-ray bursts from 10 keV to 25 MeV. GLAST will be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. Paneque , A. Borgland , A. Bovier , E. Bloom , Y. Edmonds , S. Funk , G. Godfrey , R. Rando , L. Wai , P. Wang

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jennifer E. Carson

The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled to be launched in fall 2007, is the next generation satellite for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), GLAST main instrument, with a wide field of view…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 E. Nuss

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Gamma-ray Large-Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is a pair-conversion gamma-ray detector designed to explore the gamma-ray universe in the 20 MeV-300 GeV energy band. The Tracker subsystem of the LAT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiroyasu Tajima , for GLAST Tracker Team

GLAST, a detector for cosmic gamma rays in the range from 20 MeV to 300 GeV, will be launched in space in 2005. Breakthroughs are expected in particular in the study of particle acceleration mechanisms in space and of gamma ray bursts, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Alessandro de Angelis

The GLAST Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the next generation satellite experiment for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It is a pair conversion telescope built with a plastic anticoincidence shield, a segmented CsI electromagnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Nicola Omodei

The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled to be launched in Fall 2007, is a next generation high energy gamma-ray observatory. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument on-board GLAST with a wide field of view ($>$ 2 sr),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 E. Nuss

Building on the success of the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) will make a major step in the study of such subjects as blazars,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Kamae , T. Ohsugi , D. J. Thompson , K. Watanabe

The next large NASA mission in the field of gamma-ray astronomy, GLAST, is scheduled for launch in 2007. Aside from the main instrument LAT (Large-Area Telescope), a gamma-ray telescope for the energy range between 20 MeV and > 100 GeV, a…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly known as Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, GLAST) was successfully launched on June 11 2008. Its main instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), which detects gamma rays from 20 MeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Philippe Bruel

Some pulsars have their maximum observable energy output in the gamma-ray band, offering the possibility of using these high-energy photons as probes of the particle acceleration and interaction processes in pulsar magnetospheres. After an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. J. Thompson

We discuss the ability of the GLAST Large Area Telescope (LAT) to identify, resolve, and study the high energy gamma-ray sky. Compared to previous instruments the telescope will have greatly improved sensitivity and ability to localize…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. E. McEnery , I. V. Moskalenko , J. F. Ormes

Blazars, the extreme family of AGN, can be strong gamma-ray emitters and constitute the largest fraction of identified point sources of EGRET. The next Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is a high energy (30MeV-300GeV) gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Ciprini

High-energy gamma rays are a valuable tool for studying particle acceleration and radiation in the magnetospheres of energetic pulsars. The six or more pulsars seen by CGRO/EGRET show that: the light curves usually have double-peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 David J. Thompson

We present here the current status of pulsar simulations for the Large Area Telescope, the main instrument on the GLAST mission. We present "PulsarSpectrum", a pulsar simulator that can reproduce with high detail gamma-ray emission from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Razzano

The GLAST mission to be launched in November 2007 will provide unique information about high energy photon fluxes from gamma-ray bursts. These data will be most useful when combined with multiwavelength observations that provide more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 Carl W. Akerlof , Fang Yuan

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Reimer , P. F. Michelson , R. A. Cameron , S. W. Digel , D. J. Thompson , K. S. Wood

The Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a pair-production high-energy (>20 MeV) gamma-ray telescope being built by an international partnership of astrophysicists and particle physicists for a…

Pulsars seen at gamma-ray energies offer insight into particle acceleration to very high energies, along with information about the geometry and interaction processes in the magnetospheres of these rotating neutron stars. During the next…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Thompson

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi, launched on 2008 June 11, is a space telescope to explore the high energy gamma-ray universe. The instrument covers the energy range from 20 MeV to 300 GeV with greatly improved sensitivity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-18 Damien Parent
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