After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi team announced its first census of energy sources in this new realm.
Astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected gamma-rays from a nova for the first time, a finding that stunned observers and theorists alike. The discovery overturns the notion that novae explosions lack the power to emit such high-energy radiation.
An international team of astrophysicists using telescopes on the ground and in space have uncovered surprising changes in radiation emitted by an active galaxy. The picture that emerges from these first-ever simultaneous observations in visible light, X-rays and gamma rays is much more complex than scientists expected and challenges current theories of how the radiation is generated. Read More! Lire ici
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With GLAST launched there are opportunities for students to work with us in the field of high-energy/particle astrophysical processes, data analysis or computer science. Again, contact us for more information.
Welcome to homepage of the GLAST LLR/IN2P3/CNRS group. The GLAST project (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) is an astrophysics and astro-particle physics partnership exploring the high energy gamma-ray universe. This mission is a part of the NASA Office of Space and Science Strategic Plan, with launch planned in 2008.
The satellite has a main instrument (the Large Area Telescope, LAT) based on silicon strip detectors and a CsI Calorimeter, designed for making observations of cosmic gamma-ray sources with energy between about 30 MeV to 200 GeV. The French collaboration is contributing in the LAT calorimeter subsystem and funded by IN2P3/CNRS. The LLR has participated in the design and development of a hodoscopic CsI calorimeter for GLAST.
The GLAST project is funded in the US by NASA and the Department of Energy, and by government agencies in France, Italy, Japan, and Sweden. The GLAST project follows in the footsteps of the CGRO-EGRET mission.
If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact us. You can also check out the official outreach page for more material about GLAST, or read recent preprints which mention GLAST
We are also part of the Astroparticle Physics group from the Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, located on the Ecole polytechnique campus.
With the GLAST launched there are opportunities for students to work with us in the field of high-energy/particle astrophysical processes, data analysis or computer science. Again, contact us for more information.
Read about the scientific work from our team and our publications. We build instruments, write analysis software, analyze data and participate in phenomenological modelling.
Read about the science analysis systems we contribute to in the local mirror of the Workbook Here you will find an introduction to the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) offline analysis tools selected and developed by Glast's Science Analysis Systems (SAS) team. Information, links, and exercises are presented here.
Read monthly news from recent LAT activities, on the instrument or from working groups, in the LAT Newsletter (members).