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The AGILE Mission
- Source :
- Astronomy and Astrophysics; August 2009, Vol. 502 Issue: 3 p995-1013, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00046361 and 14320746
- Volume :
- 502
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs53147593
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200810527