Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Sep 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006head....9.1807a&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #9, #18.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.382
Computer Science
Performance
Scientific paper
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, GLAST, is a mission to measure the cosmic gamma-ray flux in the energy range 20 MeV to >300 GeV, with supporting measurements for gamma-ray bursts from 10 keV to 25 MeV. With its launch in 2007, GLAST will open a new and important window on a wide variety of high energy phenomena, including black holes and active galactic nuclei; gamma-ray bursts; the origin of cosmic rays and supernova remnants; and searches for hypothetical new phenomena such as supersymmetric dark matter annihilations, Lorentz invariance violation, and exotic relics from the Big Bang. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), which provides the break-through high-energy measurements, consists of a pair conversion tracker, a hodoscopic crystal calorimeter, a segmented plastic scintillator anticoincidence shield, and a flexible trigger and data flow system. The LAT design is described, along with the expected science performance and the detailed simulations of particle interactions, event reconstruction, and classification of events on which the performance analysis is based.
Atwood William B.
GLAST-LAT Collaboration
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