SuperAGILE an X-ray monitor on-board the AGILE mission: the engineering model

Author

Soffitta, P. ; Costa, E. ; Del Monte, E. ; Di Persio, G. ; Donnarumma, I. ; Feroci, M. ; Frutti, M. ; Lapshov, I. ; Lazzarotto, F. ; Mastropietro, M. ; Morelli, E. ; Pacciani, L. ; Preger, B. ; Rapisarda, M. ; Rubini, A. ; Tavani, M. ; Prest, M. ; Vallazz

Author_Institution

IASF-CNR, Rome, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

16-22 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

381

Abstract

SuperAGILE is the X-ray monitor of AGILE, the small space mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) devoted to observations for astrophysics in the gamma ray energy range 30 MeV-50 GeV. SuperAGILE exploits an additional layer of four silicon micro-strip detectors for 1360 cm² of total geometrical area, readout by low power ASICs, and four mutually orthogonal ultra-light one-dimensional coded mask to monitor the X-ray sky in the 15-40 keV energy band. The engineering model of the payload has been built and tested, and the construction of the flight model is starting. We present here the status of SuperAGILE. We show its design, the construction, the alignment and the results of testing campaigns carried out on the engineering model.

Keywords

X-ray apparatus; aerospace instrumentation; application specific integrated circuits; gamma-ray detection; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; readout electronics; silicon radiation detectors; 15 to 40 keV; 30 MeV to 50 GeV; AGILE mission; SuperAGILE; X-ray monitor; X-ray sky; astrophysics; flight model; gamma ray energy; low power ASIC readout; mutually orthogonal ultralight one-dimensional coded mask; payload engineering model; silicon microstrip detectors; space mission; Aerospace engineering; Astrophysics; Monitoring; Payloads; Power engineering and energy; Silicon; Space missions; Testing; X-ray detection; X-ray detectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8700-7

Electronic_ISBN

1082-3654

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462217

Filename

1462217