Thursday, February 19, 2009, 3:00 pm — Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
The GLAST observatory was launched on June 11 2008 to study the gamma-ray universe from space. Following NASA's tradition, GLAST was renamed as Fermi Space Telescope after the first light results were released. There are two instruments on board, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). After a brief overview I will focus mostly on the principal instrument, the Large Area Telescope, which has been built as a partnership between astrophysics and particle physics communities. The LAT has been designed to measure photons from 20 MeV to excess of hundreds of GeV and has unprecedented capabilities when compared to its predecessor, EGRET. The Fermi Telescope probes relativistic outflows and acceleration mechanisms in objects such as supernova remnants, pulsars, active galactic nuclei and gamma ray bursts and may also shed light in the origin of dark
matter. After a brief introduction, I will present highlights of operations followed by early scientific results.
Hosted by: Mary Bishai
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