SuperAGILE: The hard X-ray imager for the AGILE space mission
| Autor: | Alda Rubini, Massimo Frutti, G. Di Persio, M. Mastropietro, Ennio Morelli, Marco Tavani, A. Argan, Geiland Porrovecchio, Y. Evangelista, E. Del Monte, Enrico Costa, Paolo Soffitta, Massimo Rapisarda, Francesco Lazzarotto, Marco Feroci, Luigi Pacciani, I. Donnarumma, I. Lapshov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics High-energy astronomy business.industry Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena media_common.quotation_subject Astrophysics (astro-ph) Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics X-ray detector FOS: Physical sciences Field of view Astrophysics Optics Sky Orbit (dynamics) Angular resolution Satellite business Instrumentation Energy (signal processing) Remote sensing media_common |
| Zdroj: | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 581:728-754 |
| ISSN: | 0168-9002 |
| Popis: | SuperAGILE is a coded mask experiment based on silicon microstrip detectors. It operates in the 15-45 keV nominal energy range, providing crossed one-dimensional images of the X-ray sky with an on-axis angular resolution of 6 arcmin, over a field of view in excess of 1 steradian. It was designed as the hard X-ray monitor of the AGILE space mission, a small satellite of the Italian Space Agency devoted to image the gamma-ray sky in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy band. The AGILE mission was launched in a low-earth orbit on 23^{rd} April 2007. In this paper we describe the SuperAGILE experiment, its construction and test processes, and its performance before flight, based on the on-ground test and calibrations. Comment: Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A, in press. Full version with figures included in the text, now available at: ftp://vesta.rm.iasf.cnr.it/pub/mferoci/ It will also be linked at the official AGILE web pages |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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