The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer (AMEGO-X) is designed to identify and characterize gamma rays from extreme explosions and accelerators. The main science themes include supermassive black holes and their connections to neutrinos and cosmic rays; binary neutron star mergers and the relativistic jets they produce; cosmic ray particle acceleration sources including galactic supernovae; continuous monitoring of other astrophysical events and sources over the full sky in this important energy range. AMEGO-X will probe the medium energy gamma-ray band using a single instrument with sensitivity up to an order of magnitude greater than previous telescopes in the energy range 100 keV to 1 GeV that can be only realized in space. During its 3-year baseline mission, AMEGO-X will observe nearly the entire sky every two orbits, building up a sensitive all-sky map of gamma-ray sources and emissions. AMEGO-X was submitted in the recent 2021 NASA MIDEX announcement of opportunity. (c) 2022 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept / Caputo, R., Ajello, M., Kierans, C.A., Perkins, J.S., Racusin, J.L., Baldini, L., Baring, M.G., Bissaldi, E., Burns, E., Cannady, N., Charles, E., Curado da Silva, R.M., Fang, K.e., Fleischhack, H., Fryer, C., Fukazawa, Y., Eric Grove, J., Hartmann, D., Howell, E.J., Jadhav, M., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES, INSTRUMENTS, AND SYSTEMS. - ISSN 2329-4124. - 8:4(2022). [10.1117/1.jatis.8.4.044003]
All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept
Elisabetta BissaldiMembro del Collaboration Group
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2022
Abstract
The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer (AMEGO-X) is designed to identify and characterize gamma rays from extreme explosions and accelerators. The main science themes include supermassive black holes and their connections to neutrinos and cosmic rays; binary neutron star mergers and the relativistic jets they produce; cosmic ray particle acceleration sources including galactic supernovae; continuous monitoring of other astrophysical events and sources over the full sky in this important energy range. AMEGO-X will probe the medium energy gamma-ray band using a single instrument with sensitivity up to an order of magnitude greater than previous telescopes in the energy range 100 keV to 1 GeV that can be only realized in space. During its 3-year baseline mission, AMEGO-X will observe nearly the entire sky every two orbits, building up a sensitive all-sky map of gamma-ray sources and emissions. AMEGO-X was submitted in the recent 2021 NASA MIDEX announcement of opportunity. (c) 2022 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
