Title :
In orbit performance and observations of the silicon strip experiment SuperAGILE
Author :
Feroci, Marco ; Costa, Enrico ; Del Monte, Ettore ; Di Persio, Giuseppe ; Donnarumma, Immacolata ; Evangelista, Yuri ; Frutti, Massimo ; Lapshov, Igor ; Lazzarotto, Francesco ; Mastropietro, Marcello ; Morelli, Ennio ; Pacciani, Luigi ; Rapisarda, Massimo
Author_Institution :
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Roma of INAF, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Rome, Italy
Abstract :
The SuperAGILE experiment is the hard X-ray monitor of the Italian AGILE gamma-ray mission. SuperAGILE is the first experiment for X-ray astronomy employing single-sided silicon microstrip detectors in space. The fine position sensitivity of these detectors allowed to design a coded mask imaging experiment very compact and resource-effective, operating in the 18–60 keV energy range. In this paper we present the design of the experiment, its development as well as its first operations in orbit, and a brief summary of the main scientific results achieved after 12 months of nominal observations.
Keywords :
Gamma ray detection; Gamma ray detectors; Microstrip; Monitoring; Payloads; Silicon; Strips; X-ray detection; X-ray detectors; X-ray imaging;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Dresden, Germany
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2714-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774769
