Monitoring the hard X-ray sky with SuperAGILE
Abstract
SuperAGILE is the hard X-ray monitor of the AGILE gamma ray mission, in orbit since 23 April 2007. It is an imaging experiment based on a set of four independent silicon strip detectors, equipped with one-dimensional coded masks, operating in the nominal energy range 18-60 keV. The main goal of SuperAGILE is the observation of cosmic sources simultaneously with the main gamma-ray AGILE experiment, the Gamma Ray Imaging Detector (GRID). Given its steradian-wide field of view and its 15 mCrab day-sensitivity, SuperAGILE is also well suited for the long-term monitoring of Galactic compact objects and the detection of bright transients. The SuperAGILE detector properties and design allow for a 6 arcmin angular resolution in each of the two independent orthogonal projections of the celestial coordinates. Photon by photon data are continuously available by the experiment telemetry, and are used to derive images and fluxes of individual sources, with integration times depending on the source intensity and position in the field of view. In this paper we report on the main scientific results achieved by SuperAGILE over its first two years in orbit, until April 2009.
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@article{arxiv.0910.4895,
title = {Monitoring the hard X-ray sky with SuperAGILE},
author = {M. Feroci and E. Costa and E. Del Monte and I. Donnarumma and Y. Evangelista and I. Lapshov and F. Lazzarotto and L. Pacciani and M. Rapisarda and P. Soffitta and G. Di Persio and M. Frutti and M. Mastropietro and E. Morelli and G. Porrovecchio and A. Rubini and A. Antonelli and A. Argan and G. Barbiellini and F. Boffelli and A. Bulgarelli and P. Caraveo and P. W. Cattaneo and A. W. Chen and V. Cocco and S. Colafrancesco and S. Cutini and F. D'Ammando and G. De Paris and G. Di Cocco and G. Fanari and A. Ferrari and M. Fiorini and F. Fornari and F. Fuschino and T. Froysland and M. Galli and D. Gasparrini and F. Gianotti and P. Giommi and A. Giuliani and C. Labanti and F. Liello and P. Lipari and F. Longo and E. Mattaini and M. Marisaldi and A. Mauri and F. Mauri and S. Mereghetti and E. Moretti and A. Morselli and A. Pellizzoni and F. Perotti and G. Piano and P. Picozza and M. Pilia and C. Pittori and C. Pontoni and B. Preger and M. Prest and R. Primavera and G. Pucella and A. Rappoldi and E. Rossi and S. Sabatini and P. Santolamazza and M. Tavani and S. Stellato and F. Tamburelli and A. Traci and M. Trifoglio and A. Trois and E. Vallazza and S. Vercellone and F. Verrecchia and V. Vittorini and A. Zambra and D. Zanello and L. Salotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4895},
year = {2014}
}
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Accepted for publication on Astronomy & Astrophysics