GLAST blast May 16, 2008

[bobw]

<p>http://www-glast.stanford.edu/<br /><br /><strong><em>LAT baseline design for the GLAST tracker consists of a four-by-four array of tower modules. Each tower module consists of interleaved planes of silicon-strip detectors andtracker lead converter sheets. Silicon-strip detectors are able to more precisely track the electron or positron produced from the initial gamma-ray than previous types of detectors. SSDs will have the ability to determine the location of an object in the sky to within 0.5 to 5 arc minutes. </em></strong><br /><br />I have been wondering about what kind of data we are going to get from the GLAST satellite.&nbsp; I have been looking around and can't find anything like a simulation of the results like I have seen with, for example, the Webb space telescope.<br /><br />The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory gave us images like this, not real hi-res but still, it is a picture.<br /><br /> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/13/2/bda38ba0-fe1f-41af-b276-8d7b9c8b0242.Medium.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />I don't know if 0.5 to 5 arc minutes resolution is enough to get pictures like that.&nbsp; Are we more likely to see graphs than pictures from GLAST?</p><p> I guess the idea that GLAST,the Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope, is called a telescope leads me to expect pictures.&nbsp; After all, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe got pictures of the background and they didn't even call it a telescope.&nbsp; <br /><br />Anybody got info on what to expect after GLAST blasts off May 16?</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>