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SuperAGILE: the hard X-ray Imager for the AGILE space mission

Aug, 2007

27 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 581 (2007) 728-754

e-Print:

0708.0123 [astro-ph]

DOI:

10.1016/j.nima.2007.07.147

Experiments:

AGILE

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Abstract: (arXiv)

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.

Note:

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

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High energy astrophysics
X-ray detectors
Microstrip detectors
Coded mask imaging

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