Rolling and tumbling: status of the SuperAGILE experiment

E. Del Monte; E. Costa; G. Di Persio; I. Donnarumma; Y. Evangelista; M. Feroci; I. Lapshov; F. Lazzarotto; M. Mastropietro; E. Morelli; L. Pacciani; M. Rapisarda; A. Rubini; P. Soffitta; M. Tavani; A. Argan; A. Trois

doi:10.1117/12.858064

29 July 2010 Rolling and tumbling: status of the SuperAGILE experiment

E. Del Monte, E. Costa, G. Di Persio, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, M. Mastropietro, E. Morelli, L. Pacciani, M. Rapisarda, A. Rubini, P. Soffitta, M. Tavani, A. Argan, A. Trois

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Proceedings Volume 7732, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 773230 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858064
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The SuperAGILE experiment is the hard X-ray monitor of the AGILE mission. It is a 2 x one-dimensional imager, with 6-arcmin angular resolution in the energy range 18 - 60 keV and a field of view in excess of 1 steradian. SuperAGILE is successfully operating in orbit since Summer 2007, providing long-term monitoring of bright sources and prompt detection and localization of gamma-ray bursts. Starting on October 2009 the AGILE mission lost its reaction wheel and the satellite attitude is no longer stabilized. The current mode of operation of the AGILE satellite is a Spinning Mode, around the Sun-pointing direction, with an angular velocity of about 0.8 degree/s (corresponding to 8 times the SuperAGILE point spread function every second). In these new conditions, SuperAGILE continuously scans a much larger fraction of the sky, with much smaller exposure to each region. In this paper we review some of the results of the first 2.5 years of "standard" operation of SuperAGILE, and show how new implementations in the data analysis software allows to continue the hard X-ray sky monitoring by SuperAGILE also in the new attitude conditions.

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E. Del Monte, E. Costa, G. Di Persio, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, M. Mastropietro, E. Morelli, L. Pacciani, M. Rapisarda, A. Rubini, P. Soffitta, M. Tavani, A. Argan, and A. Trois "Rolling and tumbling: status of the SuperAGILE experiment", Proc. SPIE 7732, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 773230 (29 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858064

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