AMEGO-X: MeV gamma-ray Astronomy in the Multimessenger Era
Abstract
Recent detections of gravitational wave signals and neutrinos from gamma-ray sources have ushered in the era of multi-messenger astronomy, while highlighting the importance of gamma-ray observations for this emerging field. AMEGO-X, the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-Ray Observatory eXplorer, is an MeV gamma-ray instrument that will survey the sky in the energy range from hundreds of keV to one GeV with unprecedented sensitivity. AMEGO-X will detect gamma-ray photons both via Compton interactions and pair production processes, bridging the "sensitivity gap" between hard X-rays and high-energy gamma rays. AMEGO-X will provide important contributions to multi-messenger science and time-domain gamma-ray astronomy, studying e.g. high-redshift blazars, which are probable sources of astrophysical neutrinos, and gamma-ray bursts. I will present an overview of the instrument and science program.
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@article{arxiv.2108.02860,
title = {AMEGO-X: MeV gamma-ray Astronomy in the Multimessenger Era},
author = {Henrike Fleischhack},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.02860},
year = {2021}
}
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Presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021), July 12th -- 23rd, 2021; Online -- Berlin, Germany