Results from the Engineering Model 1 of the GLAST Large Area Telescope

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May 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aps..aprs10006s&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, April Meeting, 2004, May 1-4, 2004, Denver, Colorado April 2004, MEETING ID: APR04, abstract #S10.006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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GLAST is the next generation satellite borne gamma ray mission. It will map the gamma ray sky with unprecedented capabilities, and will be launched in 2007. The GLAST observatory will host two instruments and will detect gamma rays from astrophysical sources in the energy range of 10 keV to >300 GeV with an advanced capability to monitor transient phenomena. The primary instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), which is designed to measure high energy photons using a pair conversion technique. The LAT modular design employs sixteen tracker/calorimeter towers surrounded by an array of scintillator tiles, which will veto the charged particle background. As part of the LAT preconstruction phase, at the end of 2003 the LAT Integration and Test group assembled a flight like single tower of the LAT with a scaled down tracker, the Engineering Model 1 (EM1). Prototype EGSE was used to test this tower, for a period of about two months, using cosmic rays, and 17.6 MeV gammas produced by a SLAC Van de Graaff accelerator. This paper will present an overview of these tests, including results from calibrations and data analysis.

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