Gamma-ray Large-Area Space Telescope (GLAST) balloon flight engineering model: overview
| Autor: | D.J. Thompson, G. Godfrey, S.M. Williams, J.E. Grove, T. Mizuno, H.F.-W. Sadrozinski, T. Kamae, J. Ampe, S. Briber, J. Dann, E. do Couto e Silva, R. Dubois, Y. Fukazawa, B. Giebels, G. Haller, T. Handa, R.C. Hartman, K. Hirano, M. Hirayama, R.P. Johnson, W.N. Johnson, A. Kavelaars, H. Kelly, S. Kliewer, T. Kotani, J. Krizmanic, W. Kroeger, M. Kuss, D. Lauben, T. Linder, M. Lovellette, N. Lumb, J. Manildi, P. Michelson, H. Mizushima, A. Moiseev, P.L. Nolan, S. Ogata, J.F. Ormes, M. Ozaki, G. Paliaga, B.F. Phlips, S. Ritz, L.S. Rochester, F.M. Roterman, W.A. Rowe, J.J. Russell, R. Schaefer, T. Schalk, D. Sheppard, S. Singh, M. Sjogren, G. Spandre, T. Usher, P. Valtersson, A.P. Waite, J. Wallace, A. Webster, D. Wood |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Pôle Astronomie du LESIA, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris |
| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics Calorimeter (particle physics) Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors business.industry Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics (astro-ph) Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics FOS: Physical sciences Astrophysics Scintillator Data processing system law.invention Telescope Data acquisition Nuclear Energy and Engineering Spitzer Space Telescope law Orbit (dynamics) Satellite Electrical and Electronic Engineering Aerospace engineering [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] business |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2002, 49, pp.1898-1903. ⟨10.1109/TNS.2002.801548⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1558-1578 0018-9499 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tns.2002.801548 |
| Popis: | The Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a pair-production high-energy (>20 MeV) gamma-ray telescope being built by an international partnership of astrophysicists and particle physicists for a satellite launch in 2006, designed to study a wide variety of high-energy astrophysical phenomena. As part of the development effort, the collaboration has built a Balloon Flight Engineering Model (BFEM) for flight on a high-altitude scientific balloon. The BFEM is approximately the size of one of the 16 GLAST-LAT towers and contains all the components of the full instrument: plastic scintillator anticoincidence system (ACD), high-Z foil/Si strip pair-conversion tracker (TKR), CsI hodoscopic calorimeter (CAL), triggering and data acquisition electronics (DAQ), commanding system, power distribution, telemetry, real-time data display, and ground data processing system. The principal goal of the balloon flight was to demonstrate the performance of this instrument configuration under conditions similar to those expected in orbit. Results from a balloon flight from Palestine, Texas, on August 4, 2001, show that the BFEM successfully obtained gamma-ray data in this high-background environment. To be published in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol 49 Replacement to include an author who was omitted |
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