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GLAST LAT Project
Software Meeting, January 16-19, 2001
Project Status Update
Peter Michelson
Principal Investigator & Spokesman
GLAST LAT Software Meeting
GLAST LAT Project
Software Meeting, January 16-19, 2001
Short-term Project Milestones
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Balloon Flight Preparations and Analysis
– Flight: June 2001
– Dave Thompson (GSFC), analysis lead
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Lehman “pre-baseline” Review: February 13-15, 2001
– Joint Department of Energy and NASA Review of LAT
– R. Dubois will present status of software development and planning
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Lehman “baseline” Review and LAT PDR: August 2001
– Must freeze and validate instrument Monte Carlo
– Reoptimize reconstruction analysis
– Re-evaluate performance parameters
• Analysis cuts and background rejection
• PSF, effective area, energy resolution, FOV, etc.
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Non-Advocate Review (NAR): August 2001
– Immediately follows PDR of instrument
– NASA-led Review of GLAST Mission
– NAR will make “go – no go” recommendation to NASA Associate
Administrator and Chief Engineer
GLAST LAT Project
Software Meeting, January 16-19, 2001
Issues and Actions
• Background rejection and trigger analysis
– Steve Ritz (Instrument Scientist) and J.J. Russell (leadrealime DAQ software scientist) are leads on this effort
• Operations during Solar flares and LAT contribution to Solar
flare science
– Neil Johnson (Cal lead scientist and Mgr) + NRL will
investigate and work with DAQ/electronics group
• I&T Planning, including instrument calibration planning
– A group, with representation from all subsystems, will be
appointed and charged by W. Althouse, Proj. Mgr.