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GLAST Telescope Network Archiving System

GLAST Telescope Network Archiving System. Tim Graves Gordon Spear Lynn Cominsky SSU EPO Team. The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope. A NASA facility-class mission scheduled for launch in 2006. Large Area Telescope Burst Alert Telescope Will observe Active Galactic Nuclei

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GLAST Telescope Network Archiving System

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  1. GLAST Telescope Network Archiving System Tim Graves Gordon Spear Lynn Cominsky SSU EPO Team

  2. The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope • A NASA facility-class mission scheduled for launch in 2006. • Large Area Telescope • Burst Alert Telescope • Will observe • Active Galactic Nuclei • Gamma Ray Bursts • Diffuse background emission

  3. Swift Gamma Ray Burst Satellite • A NASA mission scheduled for launch in September 2003 • Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) • Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) • X-ray Telescope (XRT) • Will observe gamma-ray bursts in three parts of the EM Spectrum

  4. Active Galactic Nuclei • Galaxies with massive black holes in the center • Gravity is so strong inside its “event horizon” that not even light can escape Credit: J. Bergeron Sky & Telescope

  5. Gamma-ray Bursts • Largest explosion since the Big Bang • A billion trillion times the energy from the Sun • Signals the birth of a black hole

  6. The GLAST Telescope Network • A series of institutional and amateur grade telescopes designed for use by public school students in collaboration with GLAST scientists. • All telescopes are 100% accessible from the internet. • All data is being archived at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), currently the largest known database in the world.

  7. Nicknamed – “Big Red” The GTN Prototype Telescope here at SSU • A 14’’ Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. • Paramount ME Telescope mount. • High-resolution low- noise Apogee CCD.

  8. The GTN at Kitt Peak National Observatory We are here!

  9. Robotically Controlled Telescope (RCT) • 1.3 meter telescope • 4 megapixel CCD • 1/3 of all its time is dedicated to observe Active Galactic Nuclei (major GLAST objective)

  10. Archive Development Here at SSU

  11. The GTN Archive Client and Server • Developed in Java 2 v.1.4.1. • 100% platform independent. • Features • Automatic FITS header format • FITS header validation • Manual and automatic upload mode • SSL Encrypted Connection • Future elimination of client/server protocol needs with RMI. • Server • Receives the data from the client and inserts it into the SLAC Database. • Client • Interface for user • Filter for poorly formatted data

  12. The GTN Client

  13. For More Information • Visit • http://glast.sonoma.edu/gtn/ • http://swift.sonoma.edu/ • Me -> gravest@universe.sonoma.edu

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