The GLAST Gamma-Ray Telescope Mission
Creators
- 1. Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95065 (United States)
Description
The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, GLAST, is an orbital mission under construction 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. In addition to a short review of the science opportunities, this talk will describe the high-energy gamma-ray telescope and its components and review the mission status
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.2220442;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 842
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1010-1012
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- 17. international conference on particles and nuclei
- Dates
- 23-30 Oct 2005
- Place
- Santa Fe, NM (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38041222
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; BLACK HOLES; COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS; COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES; COSMIC PHOTONS; GAMMA DETECTION; GAMMA RADIATION; GEV RANGE; KEV RANGE; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; MEV RANGE; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; REVIEWS; SUPERNOVA REMNANTS; SUPERSYMMETRY; TELESCOPE COUNTERS
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; DETECTION; DOCUMENT TYPES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; INTERACTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PHOTONS; PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; SYMMETRY
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics