SuperAGILE: The Hard X-ray Imager of AGILE
Abstract
SuperAGILE is the hard X-ray (10-40 keV) imager for the gamma-ray mission AGILE, currently scheduled for launch in mid-2005. It is based on 4 Si-microstrip detectors, with a total geometric area of 1444 cm2 (max effective about 300 cm2), equipped with one-dimensional coded masks. The 4 detectors are perpendicularly oriented, in order to provide pairs of orthogonal one-dimensional images of the X-ray sky. The field of view of each 1-D detector is 107 °×68°, at zero response, with an overlap in the central 68°×68° area. The angular resolution on axis is 6 arcmin (pixel size). We present here the current status of the hardware development and the scientific potential for GRBs, for which an onboard trigger and imaging system will allow distributing locations through a fast communication telemetry link from AGILE to the ground.
- Publication:
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Gamma-Ray Bursts: 30 Years of Discovery
- Pub Date:
- September 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.1810938
- Bibcode:
- 2004AIPC..727..696F
- Keywords:
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- 98.70.Rz;
- 95.55.Ka;
- 98.70.Qy;
- 07.87.+v;
- gamma-ray sources;
- gamma-ray bursts;
- X- and gamma-ray telescopes and instrumentation;
- X-ray sources;
- X-ray bursts;
- Spaceborne and space research instruments apparatus and components