Welcome to the LAT User Workbook.

Disk Space News:

  • Individual User Work Space on SLAC Public. A new 9 TB user disk is now online. Initial, user-based quotas have been set at 1 GB per user. To learn how to access it, see Individual User Work Space.
  • Group Work Space.

    Web Access to Group Work Space. All collaboration members have web access to the work space of the groups listed in the table below, enabling them to browse and download files. (See Fermi LAT Groups Disk Browser.)

    Write Access to a Group Work Space. Members of a work group who require write access should contact the group's Disk Czar. (See Group Work Space.)
 
NOTICE: To fully utilize this site, both Java and JavaScript functionality must be enabled on your browser. Also see Java Downloads for All Operating Systems for the latest version for your computer.

 
In order to access password protected sites, be sure you have followed the "Get Connected" instructions. (See red navbar above.)
 

NEW! SCons Pages:


Be sure to bookmark: Mirror Sites

Trackers: Satellite Tracker and
Real Time Satellite Tracking

Recommended: Exploring Nature's Highest Energy Processes with the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

WB Change Log: See LAT Workbook Change Log.

Traveling? Take the workbook with you: Download-07-00-02: ~290 MB zipped;
~ 350 MB unzipped.

Mandatory Training - If you have a SLAC computing account, including Windows, Linux/Unix/Solaris or VMS account used to access SLAC information resources, you are required to take a computer security awareness course yearly. If this requirement is not met, your SLAC account(s) will be disabled. (See Cyber Security Awareness.)

Navigating this website

This "red navbar" section of the website is intended to introduce members of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) collaboration to the offline analysis tools selected and developed by Glast's Science Analysis Systems (SAS) team. The information, links, and exercises presented here will assist you in:

  • Getting a SLAC account.
  • Identifying, accessing, installing, configuring, and testing the software you will need to accomplish your objectives.
  • Learning how to use the tools you have selected.

There are four top-level navigation bars, color-coded red, dark blue, bright blue, and green. Note that you are currently on the rednavbar "Home" page, which can always be accessed by clicking on the sky map located at the top left of the page.

Color-coded buttons on the right of the rednavbar will take you to the three remaining sections of the workbook. Each top-level navbar has second-level and third-level navbars that are launched as appropriate in order to group related topics.

Note: The Instrument Analysis button is the gateway to the developers section of this workbook and to legacy documentation; it is not intended for use by those who are performing science analysis and are not interested in developing new software.

Site Maps. For a consolidated view of the navbars and buttons located in a section, click on the Site Map for that section. For convenience, the maps are displayed in a separate window, and links are provided for each topic listed on the map. New pages added to a section are reported at the top of each map, and pages that have been changed recently are flagged with a red asterisk (*).

New Users. New users will find that following the buttons from left to right on the rednavbar -- and on its 2nd and 3rd level navbars -- will, in general, guide them through the process of familiarizing themselves with the Fermi project and the Science Analysis Systems software.

Notes:

  • This website is a work in progress, and we appreciate any and all feedback that will help us improve it.
  • Since some pages presented here are still under construction, and many pages are subject to change, please refer to electronic copy as opposed to hardcopy printouts.

Please send us your comments on this workbook.
(If referring to a specific page, please open the
link to that page in a new window and include that
url in the text of your message.)

 

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