SuperAGILE: the hard X-ray Imager for the AGILE space mission
M. Feroci, E. Costa, P. Soffitta, E. Del Monte, G. Di Persio, I., Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Frutti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, M., Mastropietro, E. Morelli, L. Pacciani, G. Porrovecchio, M. Rapisarda, A., Rubini, M. Tavani, and A. Argan
TL;DR
SuperAGILE is a coded mask silicon microstrip detector instrument on the AGILE satellite, designed to image the hard X-ray sky in the 15-45 keV range with high angular resolution and a wide field of view.
Contribution
This paper details the design, construction, testing, and performance evaluation of the SuperAGILE hard X-ray imager for the AGILE space mission.
Findings
Achieved 6 arcmin angular resolution in X-ray imaging
Demonstrated effective operation in space environment
Validated performance through ground calibration tests
Abstract
SuperAGILE is a coded mask experiment based on silicon microstrip detectors. It operates in the 15-45 keV nominal energy range, providing crossed one-dimensional images of the X-ray sky with an on-axis angular resolution of 6 arcmin, over a field of view in excess of 1 steradian. It was designed as the hard X-ray monitor of the AGILE space mission, a small satellite of the Italian Space Agency devoted to image the gamma-ray sky in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy band. The AGILE mission was launched in a low-earth orbit on 23^{rd} April 2007. In this paper we describe the SuperAGILE experiment, its construction and test processes, and its performance before flight, based on the on-ground test and calibrations.
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