The AGILE Mission

AGILE is an Italian Space Agency mission dedicated to the observation of the gamma-ray Universe. The AGILE very innovative instrumentation combines for the first time a gamma-ray imager (sensitive in the energy range 30 MeV - 50 GeV), a hard X-ray imager (sensitive in the range 18-60 keV) together w...

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Autores principales: Tavani, M., Barbiellini, G., Argan, A., Boffelli, F., Bulgarelli, A., Caraveo, P., Cattaneo, P.W., Chen, A.W., Cocco, V., Costa, E., D'Ammando, F., Del Monte, E., De Paris, G., Di Cocco, G., Di Persio, G., Donnarumma, I., Evangelista, Y., Feroci, M., Ferrari, A., Fiorini, M., Fornari, F., Fuschino, F., Froysland, T., Frutti, M., Galli, M., Gianotti, F., Giuliani, A., Labanti, C., Lapshov, I., Lazzarotto, F., Liello, F., Lipari, P., Longo, F., Mattaini, E., Marisaldi, M., Mastropietro, M., Mauri, A., Mauri, F., Mereghetti, S., Morelli, E., Morselli, A., Pacciani, L., Pellizzoni, A., Perotti, F., Piano, G., Picozza, P., Pontoni, C., Porrovecchio, G., Prest, M., Pucella, G., Rapisarda, M., Rappoldi, A., Rossi, E., Rubini, A., Soffitta, P., Traci, A., Trifoglio, M., Trois, A., Vallazza, E., Vercellone, S., Vittorini, V., Zambra, A., Zanello, D., Pittori, C., Preger, B., Santolamazza, P., Verrecchia, F., Giommi, P., Colafrancesco, S., Antonelli, A., Cutini, S., Gasparrini, D., Stellato, S., Fanari, G., Primavera, R., Tamburelli, F., Viola, F., Guarrera, G., Salotti, L., D'Amico, F., Marchetti, E., Crisconio, M., Sabatini, P., Annoni, G., Alia, S., Longoni, A., Sanquerin, R., Battilana, M., Concari, P., Dessimone, E., Grossi, R., Parise, A., Monzani, F., Artina, E., Pavesi, R., Marseguerra, G., Nicolini, L., Scandelli, L., Soli, L., Vettorello, V., Zardetto, E., Bonati, A., Maltecca, L., D'Alba, E., Patane, M., Babini, G., Onorati, F., Acquaroli, L., Angelucci, M., Morelli, B., Agostara, C., Cerone, M., Michetti, A., Tempesta, P., D'Eramo, S., Rocca, F., Giannini, F., Borghi, G., Garavelli, B., Conte, M., Balasini, M., Ferrario, I., Vanotti, M., Collavo, E., Giacomazzo, M.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2008
Materias:
astro-ph
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200810527
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1117597
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Sumario:AGILE is an Italian Space Agency mission dedicated to the observation of the gamma-ray Universe. The AGILE very innovative instrumentation combines for the first time a gamma-ray imager (sensitive in the energy range 30 MeV - 50 GeV), a hard X-ray imager (sensitive in the range 18-60 keV) together with a Calorimeter (sensitive in the range 300 keV - 100 MeV) and an anticoincidence system. AGILE was successfully launched on April 23, 2007 from the Indian base of Sriharikota and was inserted in an equatorial orbit with a very low particle background. AGILE provides crucial data for the study of Active Galactic Nuclei, Gamma-Ray Bursts, pulsars, unidentified gamma-ray sources, Galactic compact objects, supernova remnants, TeV sources, and fundamental physics by microsecond timing. An optimal angular resolution (reaching 0.1-0.2 degrees in gamma-rays, 1-2 arcminutes in hard X-rays) and very large fields of view (2.5 sr and 1 sr, respectively) are obtained by the use of Silicon detectors integrated in a very compact instrument. The paper describes the AGILE Mission and its space and ground segments.

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