The MCAL science console software for the minicalorimeter of the AGILE mission

Andrea Bulgarelli; Fulvio Gianotti; Massimo Trifoglio; Claudio Labanti; Enrico Celesti

doi:10.1117/12.557908

11 October 2004 The MCAL science console software for the minicalorimeter of the AGILE mission

Andrea Bulgarelli, Fulvio Gianotti, Massimo Trifoglio, Claudio Labanti, Enrico Celesti

Proceedings Volume 5488, UV and Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Systems; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.557908
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

AGILE is an ASI (Italian Space Agency) Small Space Mission for high energy astrophysics in the range 30 MeV - 50 GeV which is planned to be launched in 2005. The AGILE payload complement consists of a Tungsten-Silicon Tracker, a CsI Minicalorimeter, an anticoincidence system and a X-Ray detector sensitive in the 10-40 KeV range. The Minicalorimeter detector shall contribute to the determination of the energy interacting gamma-rays and will allow the detection of Gamma Ray Burst and other impulsive events from around 300 KeV. The MCAL Science Console software is part of the test equipment which provides support to the integration, verification and calibration of the Minicalorimeter from the Simplified Electrical Model (SEM) to the Protoflight model (PFM). We describe here the software version we have developed for the SEM test equipment, and which has been used during the functional, performance and calibration test campaign carried out in 2003 on the SEM Minicalorimeter model. In particular we address the performance and architectural issues in view of the next release to be procured for the Minicalorimeter PFM

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Andrea Bulgarelli, Fulvio Gianotti, Massimo Trifoglio, Claudio Labanti, and Enrico Celesti "The MCAL science console software for the minicalorimeter of the AGILE mission", Proc. SPIE 5488, UV and Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Systems, (11 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.557908

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