1. The AGILE mission and its scientific instrument
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F. Fuschino, Marco Feroci, Luigi Pacciani, Claudio Labanti, Francesco Lazzarotto, L. Foggetta, Alessio Trois, F. Mauri, M. Prest, E. Rossi, Sandro Mereghetti, F. Boffelli, Alda Rubini, F. Perotti, A. W. Chen, G. De Paris, M. Trifoglio, E. Vallazza, M. Fiorini, I. Donnarumma, Massimo Rapisarda, M. Basset, Ennio Morelli, A. Pellizzoni, Martino Marisaldi, M. Galli, I. Lapshov, E. Mattaini, G. Di Cocco, A. Giuliani, Paolo Lipari, Fulvio Gianotti, A. Argan, P. A. Caraveo, Andrea Bulgarelli, F. Longo, Enrico Costa, M. Mastropietro, Guido Barbiellini, A. Morselli, C. Pontoni, F. Liello, Marco Tavani, A. Zambra, Alessandro Traci, E. Del Monte, G. Pucella, Massimo Frutti, C. Pittori, T. Froysland, D. Zanello, Geiland Porrovecchio, P. Picozza, Paolo Soffitta, S. Vercellone, Turner, Martin J. L., Hasinger, Günther, M., Tavani, BARBIELLINI AMIDEI, Guido, A., Argan, M., Basset, F., Boffelli, A., Bulgarelli, P., Caraveo, A., Chen, E., Costa, Paris, G., Monte, E., Cocco, G., I., Donnarumma, M., Feroci, M., Fiorini, L., Foggetta, T., Froysland, M., Frutti, F., Fuschino, M., Galli, F., Gianotti, A., Giuliani, C., Labanti, I., Lapshov, F., Lazzarotto, F., Liello, P., Lipari, Longo, Francesco, M., Marisaldi, M., Mastropietro, E., Mattaini, F., Mauri, S., Mereghetti, E., Morelli, A., Morselli, L., Pacciani, A., Pellizzoni, F., Perotti, P., Picozza, C., Pittori, C., Pontoni, G., Porrovecchio, M., Prest, G., Pucella, M., Rapisarda, E., Rossi, A., Rubini, P., Soffitta, A., Traci, M., Trifoglio, A., Troi, E., Vallazza, S., Vercellone, A., Zambra, and D., Zanello
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Physics ,Scientific instrument ,Active galactic nucleus ,business.industry ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Detector ,Astronomy ,Astrophysics ,High Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy ,Universe ,Supernova ,gamma ray physics ,Pulsar ,Angular resolution ,AGILE mission ,business ,Agile software development ,media_common - Abstract
The AGILE Mission will explore the gamma-ray Universe with a very innovative instrument combining for the first time a gamma-ray imager (sensitive in the range 30 MeV - 50 GeV) and a hard X-ray imager (sensitive in the range 15-45 keV). An optimal angular resolution and a large field of view are obtained by the use of state-of-the-art Silicon detectors integrated in a very compact instrument. AGILE will be operational at the beginning of 2007 and it will provide crucial data for the study of Active Galactic Nuclei, Gamma-Ray Bursts, unidentified gamma-ray sources, Galactic compact objects, supernova remnants, TeV sources, and fundamental physics by microsecond timing.
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- 2006
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