News Archive for 2008
December 19, 2008
Fermi In The News
Researchers December 8 described the first data collected from NASA's new orbiting observatory, the Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope, during the Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, held in Vancouver this year. Peter Michelson of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., shared the above map, which shows newly identified pulsars.
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November 14, 2008
Cycle 2 Proposal Schedule
The ROSES-08 text announcing the Cycle 2 Fermi Guest Investigator program has been amended with the final program details. The proposal due date is March 6, 2009. A Notice of Intent to propose should be submitted through the FSSC website by January 23, 2009. Proposal materials will be posted three months before the deadline.
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September 18, 2008
Fermi/GBM Data Now Available
The Fermi/GBM burst catalog, burst data products and daily data products are now available. All data can be accessed through the Fermi-specific Browse interface, while the data products can also be downloaded from an FTP site. Tools and documentation for the analysis of the data products are also available. Please note the caveats.
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September 11, 2008
LAT Monitored Source List Released
The flux histories of scientifically interesting sources the LAT team is monitoring are now available through the HEASARC's Browse interface.
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August 26, 2008
GLAST renamed Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
At a press teleconference today the GLAST mission was renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in honor of Enrico Fermi, one of the leading physicists of the
20th century. In addition, 'first light' images of the sky were released.
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August 14, 2008
Cycle 1 Begins
Cycle 1 of the GLAST GI program began on Thursday, August 14. Abstracts of the successful GI proposals are posted here.
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August 8, 2008
Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The GLAST Fellows Program has been merged with other NASA Astrophysics Division Fellows programs into the Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship Program that will provide opportunities for postdoctoral research on problems that are broadly related to the scientific goals of the NASA Physics of the Cosmos program as addressed by any of the missions of this program. The deadline for this program is November 7, 2008.
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June 11, 2008
NASA's GLAST Launch Successful
NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 12:05 p.m. EDT today.
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May 23, 2008
GLAST Launch
The latest information on GLAST's launch can be found here. Do not miss the image gallery!
April 7, 2008
NASA Selects Three Research Fellows for GLAST Mission
After a nationwide search for junior science researchers on NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) mission, three people have been chosen for these prestigious post-doctoral positions.
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January 30, 2008
Abstracts of Tentatively Accepted Cycle 1 Proposals
To assist investigators preparing proposals for other programs, the abstracts of proposals that have been tentatively accepted is provided. These proposals were selected for scientific merit after the Phase 1 review, but must still undergo the Phase 2 budget review.
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January 25, 2008
GI Program's Phase 1 Results Notification
The principal investigators (PIs) of the Cycle 1 proposals were notified today of the results of the Phase 1 review. The PIs were either invited to submit a Phase 2 budget or were informed that their proposals were rejected. The program was over-subscribed by a factor of ~4, and therefore unfortunately many very good proposals cannot be accepted.
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January 18, 2008
GLAST-Relevant Observation Report Webform
Observers are invited to report planned observations that are relevant to GLAST on this webform. If desired, this information can be kept proprietary. After launch, the GLAST mission will consider these multiwavelength observations in planning GLAST's observing timeline.