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The AGILE space mission
- Source :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 588:52-62
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2008.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Active galactic nucleus
silicon tungsten tracker
business.industry
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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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
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Details
- ISSN :
- 01689002
- Volume :
- 588
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c63db4a16947ff1dfe10c38dc3f2c6fe