Physicists, astronomers work on space-based gamma ray telescope
UCSC
scientists are now involved in several aspects of NASA's Gamma ray Large Area Space
Telescope (GLAST), scheduled for launch in 2005. After years of planning and evaluation
of proposals, NASA announced in February the main investigations on which the project
will focus. The Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) will take the lead
in designing and building one of the principal components of the instrument, and
a proposal by associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics Stephen Thorsett
was chosen as one of four "interdisciplinary scientist investigations"
to broaden the scientific expertise involved in the project. (More)
