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, Regina; Ajello, Marco; Kierans, Carolyn A.; Perkins, Jeremy S.; Racusin, Judith L.; Baldini, Luca; Baring, Matthew G.; Bissaldi, Elisabetta; Burns, Eric; Cannady, Nicholas; Charles, Eric; Curado da Silva, Rui M.; Fang, Ke; Fleischhack, Henrike; Fryer, Chris; Fukazawa, Yasushi; Eric Grove, J.; Hartmann, Dieter; Howell, Eric J.; Jadhav, Manoj; Karwin, Christopher M.; Kocevski, Daniel; Kurahashi, Naoko; Latronico, Luca; Lewis, Tiffany R.; Leys, Richard; Lien, Amy; Marcotulli, Lea; Martinez-Castellanos, Israel; Nicola Mazziotta, Mario; Mcenery, Julie; Metcalfe, Jessica; Murase, Kohta; Negro, Michela; Parker, Lucas; Phlips, Bernard; Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda; Razzaque, Soebur; Shawhan, Peter S.; Sheng, Yong; Shutt, Tom A.; Shy, Daniel; Sleator, Clio; Steinhebel, Amanda L.; Striebig, Nicolas; Suda, Yusuke; Tak, Donggeun; Tajima, Hiro; Valverde, Janeth; Venters, Tonia M.; Wadiasingh, Zorawar; Woolf, Richard S.; Wulf, Eric A.; Zhang, Haocheng; Zoglauer, Andreas. - 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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2022-01-01
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.
