The GLAST LAT Instrument Science Operations Center Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title The GLAST LAT Instrument Science Operations Center

Creator

  • Author: Cameron, Robert A.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: /SLAC

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
    Place of Publication: [Menlo Park, California]
    Additional Info: SLAC

Date

  • Creation: 2007-10-16

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is scheduled for launch in late 2007. Operations support and science data processing for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument on GLAST will be provided by the LAT Instrument Science Operations Center (ISOC) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). The ISOC supports GLAST mission operations in conjunction with other GLAST mission ground system elements and supports the research activities of the LAT scientific collaboration. The ISOC will be responsible for monitoring the health and safety of the LAT, preparing command loads for the LAT, maintaining embedded flight software which controls the LAT detector and data acquisition flight hardware, maintaining the operating configuration of the LAT and its calibration, and applying event reconstruction processing to down-linked LAT data to recover information about detected gamma-ray photons. The SLAC computer farm will be used to process LAT event data and generate science products, to be made available to the LAT collaboration through the ISOC and to the broader scientific community through the GLAST Science Support Center at NASA/GSFC. ISOC science operations will optimize the performance of the LAT and oversee automated science processing of LAT data to detect and monitor transient gamma-ray sources.
  • Physical Description: 2 pages

Subject

  • STI Subject Categories: 43 Particle Accelerators
  • Keyword: Processing
  • Keyword: Data Acquisition
  • Keyword: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • Keyword: Data Processing
  • Keyword: Gamma Astronomy Instrumentation,Inst
  • Keyword: Telescopes
  • Keyword: Instrumentation,Inst

Source

  • Journal Name: AIP Conf.Proc.921:534-535,2007; Conference: Prepared for 1st GLAST Symposium, Stanford, Palo Alto, 5-8 Feb 2007

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: SLAC-PUB-12890
  • Grant Number: AC02-76SF00515
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 918034
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc888071

Note

  • Display Note: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-12890.html
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