Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jul 2007
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SF2A-2007: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics held in Grenoble, France, July
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, GLAST, scheduled for launch in early 2008, will measure cosmic gamma-rays in the energy range from 20 MeV to 300 GeV, with supporting measurements for gamma-ray bursts from 10 keV to 25 MeV. Its main instrument, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a pair-conversion telescope. With a sensitivity 25 times better than its predecessor EGRET, it will drastically improve our knowledge of the GeV sky, and thus, will shed light on a wide variety of high-energy phenomena. The GLAST mission is described, with particular focus on the LAT. The scientific objectives of GLAST are reviewed, concerning the diffuse emission, AGN, pulsars, GRBs, supernova remnants as well as searches for hypothetical new phenomena such as supersymmetric dark-matter annihilation.
GLAST Collaboration
Lonjou Vincent
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