News Archive for 2006
November 16-18, 2006
GLAST Users' Committee meeting
The GLAST Users' Committee (GUC) met at Goddard Space Flight Center. Half the meeting was devoted to a beta test of the tools that the GLAST mission will provide the community to analyze GLAST data after launch. The committee also reviewed plans for the Guest Investigator program.
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October 4-7, 2006
GLAST at the HEAD meeting
The GLAST mission had a special session at the American Astronomical Society's High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting in San Francisco, CA.
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June 2, 2006
Data Challenge 2 Closeout Meeting (5/31-6/2/06)
GLAST completed a successful exercise where the simulation and analysis software was tested end-to-end by creating, processing and analyzing 55 days of simulated data. The simulated sky was the APOD picture for Wednesday, May 31. Participants created source catalogs, detected bursts, and determined pulsar periods. This exercise demonstrated that scientists will be able to analyze GLAST data when they become available.
May 9, 2006
GLAST Users' Committee Meeting (5/8-9/06)
A GLAST Users' Committee Meeting was held at GSFC. The release schedule for the analysis tools was ratified. The GUC's meetings' agenda and minutes are presented at:
http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/resources/guc/
March 16, 2006
Mission Operations Review (3/15-16/06)
The maturity of the GLAST Project's preparations for operating the mission was demonstrated at a major review held at GSFC. The instrument operations centers and the GSSC presented the plans for producing, ingesting and providing the scientific community with the scientific data, and for implementing the community's observations.
March 3, 2006
Kickoff for Data Challenge II (3/1-3/06)
LAT observations are simulated, processed and analyzed using the software under development in three campaigns called "data challenges." The second data challenge began March 1 and will end in the middle of May; a kickoff meeting was held at SLAC. For this data challenge 55 days of simulated LAT data were created, as well as simulated GBM observations of gamma-ray bursts. GLAST scientists are now analyzing these data sets with the analysis tools as if they were flight data.
January 12, 2006
GLAST at the 207th AAS Meeting (1/8-12/06)
A large number of posters were presented covering the capabilities of both instruments and the GSSC's support of the scientific community.
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