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All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept
JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS, v 8(4), 44003
01 Oct 2022
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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)
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- Title
- All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept
- Publication Details
- JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS, v 8(4), 44003
- Publisher
- SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS; BELLINGHAM
- Grant note
- The authors would like to acknowledge generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported the development of the AMEGO-X mission concept. These include NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Naval Research Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory. The material is based upon work supported by NASA under award number 80GSFC21M0002. We also acknowledge the contributions to the design of the AMEGO-X spacecraft by Jonathan Hartley and Lindsay Papsidero from Lockheed Martin Space and the design of the AMEGO-X instrument by the engineering team at Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000914428200003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85147515682
- Other Identifier
- 991021861282404721
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- Engineering, Aerospace
- Instruments & Instrumentation
- Optics