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| #FGL | A catalog of LAT point sources, which are objects in the sky that are known to emit gamma rays over periods of time. These are often active galaxies, supernova remnants, pulsars, and pulsar wind nebulae. So far, the LAT team has published the 1FGL (which used 11 months of LAT data) and 2FGL (2 years of LAT data). There is also a 0FGL (3 months of LAT data), also known as the Bright LAT source list. The Catalog group is currently working on 3FGL. (see also Catalog) | 0FGL page |
| 1FHL | A catalog of LAT point sources (objects in the sky that are known to emit gamma rays over periods of time) that are only detected above 10 GeV. (In contrast, most standard LAT analysis begins at 100 MeV.) The 1FHL used 3 years of LAT data. (see also Catalog) | 1FHL Confluence page |
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| #PC | Catalog Catalogs of LAT pulsar detections. 1PC reports on 46 pulsed detections using the first 6 moths of data taken by the LAT. 2PC reports on 117 pulsed detections using 3 years of data taken by the LAT. | |
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| BA | (burst advocate) BAs are LAT team members who keep an eye on gamma-ray burst (GRB) activity. The GRB group has automatic software to check if the LAT detected statistically significant emission from GRBs. The BA's job is to check the output from the software and alert the rest of the group. BAs are on duty for a week at a time. | BA Confluence page | |
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| batch / batch farm | SLACs workload management platform, and job scheduler. Uses the LSF (load sharing facility) product. Allows queuing and scheduling of batch jobs on the non-interactive slac computers | LSF at SLAC presentation from 2012, Info on using the farm | |
| BGO | (bismuth germanate detector) | ||
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| boresight | |||
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