AGILE: a Gamma-Ray Mission for a Light Imaging Detector
Abstract
AGILE is an innovative, cost-effective gamma-ray mission proposed to the ASI Program of Small Scientific Missions. It is planned to detect gamma-rays in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy band and operate as an {\bf Observatory} open to the international community. Primary scientific goals include the study of AGNs, gamma-ray bursts, Galactic sources, unidentified gamma-ray sources, solar flares, and diffuse gamma-ray emission. AGILE is planned to be operational during the year 2001 for a 3-year mission. It will ideally `fill the gap' between EGRET and GLAST, and support ground-based multiwavelength studies of high-energy sources.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9812096,
title = {AGILE: a Gamma-Ray Mission for a Light Imaging Detector},
author = {M. Tavani and G. Barbiellini and P. Caraveo and S. Di Pippo and S. Mereghetti and A and Morselli and A. Pellizzoni and A. Perrino and P. Picozza and P. Schiavon and S. Severoni and F. Tavecchio and A. Vacchi and S. Vercellone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9812096},
year = {2016}
}
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4 pages, LATEX text, style file and two postscript figures included. To appear in the Proceedings of the conference: "Dal nano- al Tera-eV: tutti i colori degli AGN", Rome 18-21 May 1998, to be published by the Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana