The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Mission Concept Study

Details The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Mission Concept Study The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Mission Concept Study

Dec 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997nasa.repty....m&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, NASA/CR-97-206662; NAS 1.26:206662

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Gamma Ray Telescopes, Technologies, Mission Planning, Gamma Rays, Onboard Data Processing, Spaceborne Astronomy, Cosmic Rays, Silicon, Calorimeters, Gamma Ray Observatory

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The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), a next generation high-energy gamma-ray mission designed to observe cosmic sources of gamma-rays over the approximate energy range from 10 MeV to 300 GeV, was studied for possible flight in the next decade. The GLAST baseline mission studied will achieve a major advance in sensitivity beyond EGRET by the use of modern particle physics tracking technology. The baseline instrument design that has been extensively studied uses solid-state silicon strip detectors for particle tracking and efficient on-board data processing and event triggering to achieve more than an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity compared to EGRET. Development of technology requirements and a technology development roadmap for the GLAST mission is presented.

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