The AGILE mission and its scientific instrument
Abstract
The AGILE Mission will explore the gamma-ray Universe with a very innovative instrument combining 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 15-45 keV). An optimal angular resolution and a large field of view are obtained by the use of state-of-the-art Silicon detectors integrated in a very compact instrument. AGILE will be operational at the beginning of 2007 and it 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.
- Publication:
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation II: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
- Pub Date:
- June 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.673207
- Bibcode:
- 2006SPIE.6266E..03T