Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Oct 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000head....5.4313c&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD Meeting #5, #43.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1261
Computer Science
Performance
Scientific paper
SuperAGILE is the X-ray stage of AGILE gamma-ray observatory. It is devoted to monitor X-ray (10-40 keV) sources with a sensitivity better than 10 mCrabs in one observing day and to detect hard X-ray transients in a field of view of 1.8 sr, well matched to that of the gamma-ray tracker, with few arc-minutes position resolution. SuperAGILE is designed to exploit one additional layer of four silicon microstrip detectors, for a total geometric area of 1444 cm2, on top of the AGILE tracker and a system of four mutually orthogonal unidimensional coded masks to encode the X-ray sky. Low noise electronics based on ASICS technology is the front-end read out. We present here the instrumental and astrophysical expected performances of SuperAGILE as derived by Monte Carlo simulations and experimental tests on a prototype of the silicon microstrip detector and front-end electronics.
Barbiellini Guido
Costa Edgar
Del Monte Ettore
Feroci Marco
Lapshov Igor
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