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The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Taro Kotani
Taro Kotani*
Affiliation:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771, U.S.A.
*
Present address: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku Oookayama 2-12-1, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan

Abstract

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GLAST, the next U.S. general gamma-ray astrophysics mission scheduled to be launched into low Earth orbit in April, 2006, for 5–10 years of operation, is described. A product of a NASA/DOE and international collaboration, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the primary instrument that covers the < 20 MeV to > 300 GeV band with an effective area > 8000 cm2. The angular resolution ranges from < 3.5° at 100 MeV to < 0.15° at 10 GeV. The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM) consists of a group of NaI and BGO detectors to extend GLAST’s sensitivity to gamma-ray bursts to the < 10 keV to > 25 MeV band. GLAST’s localizations enables us to identify the X-ray, optical and radio counterparts of thousands of gamma-ray sources and to determine their nature.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 187: Exotic Stars as Challenges to Evolution , 2002 , pp. 73 - 77
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002

Footnotes

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For the entire GLAST mission team

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