Gamma Ray Astronomy in the Era of Glast

Gehrels, Neil

doi:10.1007/978-94-010-1007-8_23

Neil Gehrels³

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 267))

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The Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is a high energy (20 MeV to 300 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy mission scheduled for launch in 2005. The underlying theme of the GLAST mission is to explore sites of particle acceleration in the universe. GLAST will build on discoveries made by EGRET/CGRO, examining blazars, gamma-ray bursts, supernova remnants, pulsars, dark matter and solar flares. In addition, GLAST observations may begin to uncover the mystery of the ~ 170 unidentified high-energy gamma-ray. The sensitivity will be < 6 x 10^-9s^-1 for a one year survey at high galactic latitude, a factor of ∼ 15 better than EGRET.

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Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Tonantzintla, México
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Gehrels, N. (2001). Gamma Ray Astronomy in the Era of Glast . In: Carramiñana, A., Reimer, O., Thompson, D.J. (eds) The Nature of Unidentified Galactic High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 267. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1007-8_23

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