The AGILE Mission

2009372 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

M. Tavani · Consorzio Interuniversitario Fisica Spaziale

G. Barbiellini · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste

A. Argan · National Institute for Astrophysics

F. Boffelli · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pavia

A. Bulgarelli · National Institute for Astrophysics

P. A. Caraveo · National Institute for Astrophysics

P. W. Cattaneo

Abstract

Context. AGILE is an Italian Space Agency mission dedicated to observing the gamma-ray Universe. The AGILE's very innovative instrumentation for the first time combines a gamma-ray imager (sensitive in the energy range 30 MeV-50 GeV), a hard X-ray imager (sensitive in the range 18-60 keV), a calorimeter (sensitive in the range 350 keV-100 MeV), and an anticoincidence system. AGILE was successfully launched on 2007 April 23 from the Indian base of Sriharikota and was inserted in an equatorial orbit with very low particle background.

Topics & Keywords

Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and clean energy

Publication Details

Published in: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volume 502, Issue 3, pp. 995-1013

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200810527

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