Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000aipc..510..746t&link_type=abstract
THE FIFTH COMPTON SYMPOSIUM. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 510, pp. 746-749 (2000).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation
Scientific paper
AGILE is an innovative, cost-effective gamma-ray mission selected by the Italian Space Agency for a Program of Small Scientific Missions. The AGILE gamma-ray imaging detector (GRID, made of a Silicon tracker and CsI Mini-Calorimeter) is designed to detect and image photons in the 30 MeV-50 GeV energy band with good sensitivity and very large field of view (FOV ~3 sr). The X-ray detector, Super-AGILE, sensitive in the 10-40 keV band and integrated on top of the GRID gamma-ray tracker will provide imaging (1-3 arcmin) and moderate spectroscopy. For selected sky areas, AGILE might achieve a flux sensitivity (above 100 MeV) better than 5×10-8 ph cm2 s-1 at the completion of its scientific program. AGILE will operate as an Observatory open to the international community and is planned to be operational during the year 2002 for a nominal 2-year mission. It will be an ideal `bridge' between EGRET and GLAST, and the only mission entirely dedicated to high-energy astrophysics above 30 MeV during that period. .
Barbiellini Guido
Budini G.
Caraveo Patrizia
Cocco Valter
Costa Edgar
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