Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

McEnery, Julie E.; Michelson, Peter F.; Paciesas, William S.; Ritz, Steven

doi:doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.1.011012

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Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Opt. Eng. 51, 011012 (Feb 10, 2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.1.011012

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Julie E. McEnery

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

Peter F. Michelson

Stanford University, W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford, California, 94305-4085

William S. Paciesas

University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), Huntsville, Alabama 35899

Steven Ritz

University of California, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, California 95064

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched in June 2008, is an observatory designed to survey the high-energy gamma-ray sky. The primary instrument, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), provides observations from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV. A second instrument, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), provides observations of transients from less than 10 keV to 40 MeV. We describe the design and performance of the instruments and their subsystems, the spacecraft and the ground system.

History

Received Aug 11, 2011
Accepted Oct 25, 2011
Revised Oct 17, 2011
Published online Feb 10, 2012

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.1.011012

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Julie E. McEnery, Peter F. Michelson, William S. Paciesas and Steven Ritz, "Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope", Opt. Eng. 51, 011012 (Feb 10, 2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.1.011012