A wide aperture telescope for high energy gamma rays detection

Barbiellini, G.; Boezio, M.; Candusso, M.; Casolino, M.; Pascale, M. P. De; Fuglesang, C.; Galper, A. M.; Моисеев, А. А.; Morselli, A.; Ozerov, Yu. V.; Picozza, P.; Popov, A.; Ricci, M.; Sparvoli, R.; Спиллантини, П.; Vacchi, A.; Voronov, S. A.; Zemskov, V. M.; Zverev, V. G.

doi:10.1016/0920-5632(95)00484-q

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“…Figure 3 shows a schematic view of the instrument, and Table 1 summarizes the main instrument's scientific performance. We summarize here the main characteristics of the instrument: several papers describe the individual detectors in detail (Perotti et al 2006;Barbiellini et al 1995a;Prest et al 2003;Feroci et al 2007;Labanti et al 2006).…”

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The AGILE Mission

Tavani

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Argan³

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Context. AGILE is an Italian Space Agency mission dedicated to observing the gamma-ray Universe. The AGILE's very innovative instrumentation for the first time combines 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), a calorimeter (sensitive in the range 350 keV-100 MeV), and an anticoincidence system. AGILE was successfully launched on 2007 April 23 from the Indian base of Sriharikota and was inserted in an equatorial orbit with very low particle background. Aims. 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.Methods. An optimal sky angular positioning (reaching 0.1 degrees in gamma-rays and 1-2 arcmin 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. Results. AGILE surveyed the gamma-ray sky and detected many Galactic and extragalactic sources during the first months of observations. Particular emphasis is given to multifrequency observation programs of extragalactic and galactic objects. Conclusions. AGILE is a successful high-energy gamma-ray mission that reached its nominal scientific performance. The AGILE Cycle-1 pointing program started on 2007 December 1, and is open to the international community through a Guest Observer Program.

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“…The AGILE scientific payload is based on the state-of-the-art and reliably developed technology of solid state silicon detectors [1][2][3]. The instrument is very light (∼ 60 kg) and effective in detecting and monitoring gamma-ray sources (30 MeV-50 GeV) within a large field of view.…”

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The AGILE gamma-ray astronomy mission

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Budini³

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AIP Conference Proceedings

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Abstract. We describe the AGILE gamma-ray astronomy satellite which has recently been selected as the first Small Scientific Mission of the Italian Space Agency. With a launch in 2002, AGILE will provide a unique tool for high-energy astrophysics in the 30 MeV -50 GeV range before GLAST. Despite the much smaller weight and dimensions, the scientific performances of AGILE are comparable to those of EGRET.

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