This brochure was designed and prepared at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center. Major contributions were made by the Compton Observatory Science Support Center (Daryl Macomb, Chris Shrader, Paul Barrett, and Jerry Bonnell) and the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (Neil Gehrels, Jay Norris) with the help of the Technical Information Services (Carol Ladd and Terri Randall) and NASA Headquarters (Sethanne Howard). The Program Scientist for the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory is Alan Bunner and the Project Scientist Neil Gehrels. The Principal Investigators of the four Compton instruments are Jerry Fishman (BATSE, Marshall Space Flight Center), Jim Kurfess (OSSE, Naval Research Laboratory), Volker Schûnfelder (COMPTEL, Max Planck Institute), and Carl Fichtel (EGRET, Goddard Space Flight Center). The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory was built by TRW. Additional funding is provided by the German Space Agency (DARA) and the Space Research Organization Netherlands (SRON).
 

Credits Home page - EGRET all-sky gamma-ray image courtesy of Goddard Space Flight Center Home page - images of Compton Observatory deployment courtesy of NASA Page 1 - picture of A. H. Compton courtesy of the University of Chicago Archives. Page 1 - artist's illustration of the electromagnetic spectrum.  Page 2 - artist's conception of accretion flow and jet surrounding a compact star Page 3 - artist's illustration of gamma-ray line emission processes courtesy of the INTEGRAL Science Team Page 4 - launch of the Compton Observatory courtesy of NASA  Page 4 - artist's illustration of the Compton instruments energy ranges Page 5 - artist's illustration of the BATSE instruments Page 6 - artist's illustrations of the OSSE and COMPTEL instruments Page 7 - artist's illustration of EGRET instrument Page 8 - COMPTEL all-sky map courtesy of Max Planck Institute, Germany Page 8 - COMPTEL anticenter image courtesy of Max Planck Institute, Germany  Page 9 - pulsar lightcurves courtesy of Goddard Space Flight Center Page 9 - 3C 279 image courtesy of Goddard Space Flight Center Page 10 - BATSE galactic center image courtesy of the Marshall Space Flight Center Page 11 - BATSE burst distribution courtesy of Marshall Space Flight Center Page 12 - Superbowl burst lightcurves courtesy of Goddard Space Flight Center Page 12 - Superbowl burst localization courtesy University of New Hampshire Page 13 - COMPTEL image courtesy of the University of New Hampshire Page13 - Solar flare spectrum courtesy of the Naval Research Laboratory Page 14 - GRO J1655-40 lightcurve courtesy Marshall Space Flight Center Page 14 - radio image of GRO J1655-40 courtesy of National Radio Astronomy Observatory, R. Hjellming and M. Rupen Page 15 - lightcurve of 3C 279 courtesy of Goddard Space Flight Center Page 16 - Bursting Pulsar lightcurve courtesy of Marshall Space Flight Center Page 17 - Comptel 26Al map courtesy of the Max Planck Institute, Germany Page 17 - GLAST simulations of Virgo and all sky courtesy of Stanford University, P. Michelson Page 18 - artist's conception of the INTEGRAL mission courtesy of the INTEGRAL Science Team

"The progress of the human race in  understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe." S.W. Hawking