Hi,
I'm not sure where to post comments, and I thought that someone would set up something on conlfuence for comments, but I can't find it, so...
One of the items discussed at the June 14 meeting was if GLAST should point toward an AGN flare that HESS observes (as an example). Julie mentioned that the sensitivity gain might not be greatly increased over the survey mode. One point that was left out (I think) and that I thought might be of interest is the following.
If we stay pointed at a flare for a longer period of time we have the ability to measure whether or not there is correlated/uncorrelated flaring in our energy band as opposed to the TeV which is what HESS is bassically seeing. I.e. There could be a flare in the TeV which we also see in the GeV or MeV, then the TeV flare quiesces but there is continued flaring in our energy band (or the oppositie could be true). Anyway, all I'm saying is that, while we don't gain much out of sensitivity, if we see a flare for ~15( ?) minutes each orbit when we could see it for potentially ~40( ?) minutes, we might see something interesting. It could be that the time structure of flares is longer than 90 minutes and what I am saying is not that interesting. Still, I thought I'd pipe up and ask what people thought.
Fred