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Super-AGILE: The X-ray monitor on-board of AGILE
- Source :
- ResearcherID
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- AIP, 2001.
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Abstract
- Super-AGILE is the hard X-ray imaging detector of the AGILE gamma-ray mission. It is devoted to monitor X-ray (10–40 keV) sources with an on-axis sensitivity near 5 mCrab in one observing day and to detect X-ray transients in a field of view of 107 deg×68 deg. Super-AGILE is well matched with the Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector (GRID), and potentially provides source arc-minute positioning depending on intensity, spectrum and background conditions. Super-AGILE detects hard X-rays with one additional layer of four Silicon micro-strip detectors, for 1444 cm2 total geometrical area. It will be placed on top of the AGILE Tracker and equipped with a system of four mutually orthogonal one-dimentional 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 performance of Super-AGILE as derived by Monte Carlo simulations and experimental tests.
Details
- ISSN :
- 0094243X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....50f39f238606d093471dc2c439a10770