SuperAGILE: The hard X-ray imager for the AGILE space mission
By M. Feroci, E. Costa, P. Soffitta, E. Monte, G. Persio, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Frutti, I. Lapshov, Francesco Lazzarotto and 8 more. 2007
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Abstract 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 sr. 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 23rd 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.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger (2017, methodology): “In addition, the Super-AGILE detector (Feroci et al. 2007) on board the AGILE mission (Tavani et al. 2009) observed the location of GW170817 starting at August 18 01:16:34.84 UTC (T0 0.53+ days).”
- Coded-aperture imaging systems: Past, present and future development - A review (2016, methodology): “Other examples make use of sensitive silicon microstrip detectors (Del Monte et al., 2007; Feroci et al., 2007), where X-ray photons interact directly with the sensitive elements of the detector.”
- SEARCH FOR PROMPT NEUTRINO EMISSION FROM GAMMA-RAY BURSTS WITH ICECUBE (2014, background): “Fermi GBM, which observes the most bursts, typically has a total statistical plus systematic uncertainty of a few degrees or more, but for bursts observed by other satellites, the uncertainty is generally ≪ °1 (Winkler et al. 2003; Gehrels et al. 2004; Feroci et al. 2007; Hurley et al. 2010).”