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Peter F. Michelson Stanford University Principal Investigator, Large Area Telescope Collaboration

Peter F. Michelson Stanford University Principal Investigator, Large Area Telescope Collaboration peterm@stanford.edu on behalf of the GLAST LAT Collaboration and the GLAST mission August 26, 2008. GLAST LARGE AREA SPACE TELESCOPE FIRST LIGHT. LAT "First Light" All-Sky Map.

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Peter F. Michelson Stanford University Principal Investigator, Large Area Telescope Collaboration

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  1. Peter F. Michelson Stanford University Principal Investigator, Large Area Telescope Collaboration peterm@stanford.edu on behalf of the GLAST LAT Collaboration and the GLAST mission August 26, 2008 GLAST LARGE AREA SPACE TELESCOPE FIRST LIGHT

  2. LAT "First Light" All-Sky Map LAT does complete sky scan every 3 hours Shown here: initial all-sky exposure done in 4 days, achieved EGRET 1 year source sensitivity Orthographic projection: sky projected onto surface of a sphere

  3. LAT "First Light" All-Sky Map entire sky projected onto a flat map

  4. LAT "First Light" All-Sky Map

  5. Summary: First Light Image An important window of discovery on our Galaxy and the Universe beyond is now wide open. • The Large Area Telescope (LAT), designed and built by an International Collaboration from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, and Sweden, is fully operational. • In just a few days, the LAT has already corroborated many of the great discoveries of EGRET and AGILE; finding new sources as well; • Undoubtedly, the most exciting is yet to come as we start the all-sky survey phase and with time probe deeper and deeper into the high-energy Universe

  6. France IN2P3, CEA/Saclay Italy INFN, ASI, INAF Japan Hiroshima University ISAS/JAXA RIKEN Tokyo Institute of Technology Spain ICREA and Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai Sweden Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm University United States Stanford University (SLAC and HEPL/Physics) University of California at Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics Goddard Space Flight Center Naval Research Laboratory Sonoma State University Ohio State University University of Washington GLAST LAT Collaboration Principal Investigator: Peter Michelson (Stanford University) ~270 Members (~90 Affiliated Scientists, 37 Postdocs, and 48 Graduate Students) construction managed by Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University

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