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

fYear

2008

fDate

19-25 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1951

Lastpage

1958

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Dresden, Germany

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2714-7

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774769

Filename

4774769