The gamma-ray detector AGILE, operating in the energy range from 30 MeV to 50 GeV, is composed by a tracking part, a light calorimeter and an anticoincidence system. Here we describe the detector and its capabilities to determine the arrival direction and energy of the detected photons.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9901183,
title = {The AGILE gamma-ray detector},
author = {A. Morselli and A. Perrino and P. Picozza and S. Severoni and P. Caraveo and S. Mereghetti and M. Tavani and G. Barbiellini and A. Vacchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9901183},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages, latex, 2 figures, corrections in the abstract and in the figure caption. Adapted from a paper presented at 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