GLAST: physics goals and instrument status

Details GLAST: physics goals and instrument status GLAST: physics goals and instrument status

2006-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610960v1

J.Phys.Conf.Ser.60:115-118,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

to appear in Proceedings of TeV Particle Astrophysics II, 28-31 August 2006, Madison, WI, USA

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/60/1/020

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 to detect gamma-ray bursts, and (2) the Large Area Telescope (LAT), sensitive to gamma rays between ~20 MeV and 300 GeV and designed to survey the gamma-ray sky with unprecedented sensitivity. We describe the LAT and the GBM. We then focus on the LAT's capabilities for studying active galactic nuclei.

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