Onboard filtering and science processing in GLAST

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Apr 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aps..apr.b7005k&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, APS April Meeting, April 22-26, 2006, abstract #B7.005

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Launching in 2007, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), will measure the spectrum of gamma-rays from 20 MeV to > 300 GeV using the Large Area Telescope (LAT). As photons enter the LAT, they produce electron-positron pairs that traverse a tracker consisting of planes of silicon strip detectors and a segmented CsI calorimeter. Charged Cosmic Rays (CR's) are vetoed by an Anti-Coincidence Detector. CR backgrounds are far larger than the gamma-ray flux. Onboard, the LAT uses hardware triggers that are efficient for determining gamma-ray candidate events, along with subsequent software filters that reduce the data volume by an additional factor of ˜10 to meet the downlink requirements. Incorporated in the onboard software are algorithms for identifying transients such as Gamma Ray Bursts and flaring states of Active Galactic Nuclei. I will describe the hardware and software trigger algorithms and their impact on event selection and onboard science.

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