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Roger Blandford

Researcher at Stanford University

Publications -  716
Citations -  97353

Roger Blandford is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The author has an hindex of 156, co-authored 704 publications receiving 90181 citations. Previous affiliations of Roger Blandford include SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory & Max Planck Society.

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The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Mission

W. B. Atwood, +292 more
TL;DR: The Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT) as mentioned in this paper is the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from below 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV.
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LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

Željko Ivezić, +312 more
- 15 May 2008 - 
TL;DR: The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the solar system, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way.
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THE NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPIC TELESCOPE ARRAY (NuSTAR) HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY MISSION

Fiona A. Harrison, +84 more
TL;DR: The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) as discussed by the authors is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit, which operates in the band from 3 to 79 keV.
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Relativistic jets as compact radio sources

TL;DR: In this article, the relativistic motion of a quasi-steady jet is modeled as a superluminal expansion in which the moving component and the stationary component would have comparable Doppler-boosted fluxes, and specific models for the dynamical and radiative properties of the jet and individual shocks are presented.
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Particle acceleration at astrophysical shocks: A theory of cosmic ray origin

TL;DR: In this article, the theory of first order Fermi acceleration at collisionless astrophysical shock fronts is reviewed and it is argued that the wave amplitude is probably non-linear within sufficiently strong astrophysical shocks.