1. The AGILE space mission
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Francesco Longo, V. Cocco, M. Trifoglio, Ennio Morelli, Alda Rubini, Sandro Mereghetti, F. Perotti, P. A. Caraveo, A. Zambra, E. Rossi, C. Pittori, G. Di Cocco, T. Froysland, M. Galli, Martino Marisaldi, F. Fuschino, M. Fiorini, Paolo Soffitta, G. De Paris, G. Barbiellini, Marco Feroci, Luigi Pacciani, A. Morselli, F. Mauri, I. Lapshov, E. Del Monte, G. Pucella, Marco Tavani, Massimo Rapisarda, M. Mastropietro, M. Prest, Claudio Labanti, Paolo Lipari, S. Vercellone, D. Zanello, E. Vallazza, Angelo Antonelli, C. Pontoni, A. W. Chen, P. Giommi, A. Argan, Andrea Bulgarelli, Enrico Costa, Fulvio Gianotti, Alessio Trois, Geiland Porrovecchio, Francesco Lazzarotto, I. Donnarumma, P. Picozza, A. Pellizzoni, A. Giuliani, Y. Evangelista, M., Tavani, G., Barbiellini, A., Argan, A., Bulgarelli, P., Caraveo, A., Chen, V., Cocco, E., Costa, G. D., Pari, E. D., Monte, G. D., Cocco, I., Donnarumma, M., Feroci, M., Florini, T., Froysland, F., Fuschino, M., Galli, F., Gianotti, A., Giuliani, Y., Evangelista, C., Labanti, I., Lapshov, F., Lazzarotto, P., Lipari, Longo, Francesco, M., Marisaldi, M., Mastropietro, F., Mauri, S., Mereghetti, E., Morelli, A., Morselli, L., Pacciani, A., Pellizzoni, F., Perotti, P., Picozza, C., Pontoni, G., Porrovecchio, M., Prest, G., Pucella, M., Rapisarda, E., Rossi, A., Rubini, P., Soffitta, M., Trifoglio, A., Troi, E., Vallazza, S., Vercellone, A., Zarnbra, D., Zanello, P., Giommi, A., Antonelli, and C., Pittori
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Active galactic nucleus ,silicon tungsten tracker ,business.industry ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Detector ,Astronomy ,Detectors ,Space (commercial competition) ,small mission ,High Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy ,Universe ,Supernova ,Orbit (dynamics) ,AGILE satellite ,Angular resolution ,business ,Instrumentation ,Agile software development ,media_common - Abstract
AGILE is an Italian Space Agency mission dedicated to the exploration of the gamma-ray Universe. The AGILE, very innovative instrument, combines 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 18–60 keV). An optimal angular resolution and very large fields of view are obtained by the use of state-of-the-art Silicon detectors integrated in a very compact instrument. AGILE was successfully launched on April 23, 2007 from the Indian base of Sriharikota and was inserted in an optimal low-particle background equatorial orbit. AGILE 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. 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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- 2008