SuperAGILE: The hard X-ray imager for the AGILE space mission

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• 作者：M. Feroci ; E. Costa ; P. Soffitta ; E. Del Monte ; G. Di Persio ; I. Donnarumma ; Y. Evangelista ; M. Frutti ; I. Lapshov ; F. Lazzarotto ; M. Mastropietro ; E. Morelli ; L. Pacciani ; G. Porrovecchio ; M. Rapisar
• 关键词：High energy astrophysics ; X-ray detectors ; Microstrip detectors ; Coded mask imaging
• 刊名：Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：1 November 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：581
• 期：3
• 页码：728-754
• 全文大小：2725 K

文摘

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 sr. 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 23rd 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.