Published November 1, 2007
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Journal article
SuperAGILE: The hard X-ray imager for the AGILE space mission
Creators
- 1. INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Rome (Italy)
- 2. IKI, Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation)
- 3. CNR, Istituto Metodologie Inorganiche e dei Plasmi, Area Ricerca Montelibretti (Italy)
- 4. INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Bologna (Italy)
- 5. ENEA, Centro Ricerche, Frascati (Italy)
Description
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
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2007.07.147Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2007.07.147;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0708.0123v1;
- PII
- S0168-9002(07)01649-X;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 581
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 728-754
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39064127
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- A CODES; ASTROPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; CONSTRUCTION; GAMMA RADIATION; GEV RANGE; HARD X RADIATION; IMAGES; KEV RANGE; MEV RANGE; MONITORS; ORBITS; PERFORMANCE; SATELLITES; SI MICROSTRIP DETECTORS; SKY; SPACE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPUTER CODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENERGY RANGE; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PHYSICS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; RESOLUTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SI SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; X RADIATION
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.