Instrumental and astrophysical performances of SuperAGILE on-board AGILE Gamma-Ray mission

Paolo Soffitta; Enrico Costa; Ettore Del Monte; Marco Feroci; Igor Lapshov; Marcello Mastropietro; Ennio Morelli; Massimo Rapisarda; Alda Rubini; Guido Barbiellini; Francesco Longo; Sandro Mereghetti; Aldo Morselli; Michela Prest; Marco Tavani; Erik Vallazza; Stefano Vercellone

doi:10.1117/12.409122

13 December 2000 Instrumental and astrophysical performances of SuperAGILE on-board AGILE Gamma-Ray mission

Paolo Soffitta, Enrico Costa, Ettore Del Monte, Marco Feroci, Igor Lapshov, Marcello Mastropietro, Ennio Morelli, Massimo Rapisarda, Alda Rubini, Guido Barbiellini, Francesco Longo, Sandro Mereghetti, Aldo Morselli, Michela Prest, Marco Tavani, Erik Vallazza, Stefano Vercellone

Author Affiliations +

Proceedings Volume 4140, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409122
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

SuperAGILE is the X-ray stage of AGILE gamma-ray mission. It is devoted to monitor X-ray (10 - 40 keV) sources with a sensitivity better than 10 mCrab in one observing day and to detect X-ray transients in a field of view of 1.8 sr, well matched to that of the gamma ray tracker, with few arc-minutes position resolution. SuperAGILE is designed to exploit one additional layer of four silicon micro-strip detectors, for 1444 cm² of total geometrical area, on top of the AGILE tracker and a system of four mutually orthogonal one- dimensional coded masks to encode the X-ray sky. Low noise electronics based on ASICs technology is the front-end read out. We present here the instrumental and astrophysical performances of SuperAGILE as derived by Monte Carlo simulation and experimental tests.

Citation Download Citation

Paolo Soffitta, Enrico Costa, Ettore Del Monte, Marco Feroci, Igor Lapshov, Marcello Mastropietro, Ennio Morelli, Massimo Rapisarda, Alda Rubini, Guido Barbiellini, Francesco Longo, Sandro Mereghetti, Aldo Morselli, Michela Prest, Marco Tavani, Erik Vallazza, and Stefano Vercellone "Instrumental and astrophysical performances of SuperAGILE on-board AGILE Gamma-Ray mission", Proc. SPIE 4140, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, (13 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409122

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available