An All-sky Low Energy Gamma-Ray Observatory (ALLEGRO)
Abstract
ALLEGRO is a proposed MidEx class instrument providing all-sky monitoring of low-energy gamma-rays at unprecedented sensitivity. Unlike previous hard X-ray experiments, there is no time averaging, data selection, or triggering on-board: ALLEGRO transmits all events, time-tagged to 1/8th ms and with full energy information. This produces a database of uniformly high resolution in both energy and time, permitting non-triggered, unbiased detection of transient and pulsed events. This facility would provide excellent all-sky monitoring for AGNs as well as galactic black holes.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #190
- Pub Date:
- May 1997
- Bibcode:
- 1997AAS...190.1604U