Date:
Sun, 04/01/200914:00-15:00
Location:
Kaplun Bldg, seminar room, 2nd floor
High energy emission from GRBs: expectations and first results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST; formerly GLAST) was successfully launched on 11 June 2008, and is performing very well. Its Large Area Telescope (LAT; 20 MeV - 300 GeV) significantly improves upon its predecessor, EGRET, in terms of sensitivity, angular resolution, and instrumental deadtime. Together with its Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM; 8 keV - 40 MeV), Fermi has a very wide energy coverage of 7.5 decade. I will briefly outline some of the expectations from Fermi for detecting high energy emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and report initial results for LAT+GBM observations of GRBs.
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST; formerly GLAST) was successfully launched on 11 June 2008, and is performing very well. Its Large Area Telescope (LAT; 20 MeV - 300 GeV) significantly improves upon its predecessor, EGRET, in terms of sensitivity, angular resolution, and instrumental deadtime. Together with its Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM; 8 keV - 40 MeV), Fermi has a very wide energy coverage of 7.5 decade. I will briefly outline some of the expectations from Fermi for detecting high energy emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), and report initial results for LAT+GBM observations of GRBs.