The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly named GLAST) was designed and built by NASA, the United States Department of Energy, and agencies in France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Sweden. It launched in June of 2008 and has been observing the gamma-ray sky for over 6 months. This paper describes the mission overview and the mission systems; outlines how the instruments work; summarizes the on-orbit activation, and discusses the recent science highlights.


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    Titel :

    The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope: Overview and early science results


    Beteiligte:
    Leibee, Jack (Autor:in) / Seidleck, Mark (Autor:in) / McEnery, Julie (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2009-03-01


    Format / Umfang :

    1829100 byte





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch