Science with Gamma-Ray Mission AGILE
Abstract
AGILE is an ASI Small Scientific Mission dedicated to high-energy astrophysics. The AGILE instrument is designed to detect and image photons in the 30 MeV--50 GeV and 10--40 keV energy bands, with excellent space resolution and timing capability, and an unprecedently large field of view covering ~ 1/4 of the entire sky at energies above 30 MeV. Primary scientific goals include the study of AGNs, gamma-ray bursts, Galactic sources, unidentified gamma-ray sources, diffuse Galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray emission, and high-precision timing studies. The AGILE Science Program will be open to the international scientific community. AGILE will be the only Mission entirely dedicated to high-energy astrophysics above 30 MeV to support multiwavelength studies during the period 2002-2005.
- Publication:
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AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division #5
- Pub Date:
- October 2000
- Bibcode:
- 2000HEAD....5.4702T