TY - JOUR
T1 - The e-ASTROGAM mission
T2 - Exploring the extreme Universe with gamma rays in the MeV – GeV range
AU - The e-ASTROGAM Collaboration
AU - De Angelis, A.
AU - Tatischeff, V.
AU - Tavani, M.
AU - Oberlack, U.
AU - Grenier, I.
AU - Hanlon, L.
AU - Walter, R.
AU - Argan, A.
AU - von Ballmoos, P.
AU - Bulgarelli, A.
AU - Donnarumma, I.
AU - Hernanz, M.
AU - Kuvvetli, I.
AU - Pearce, M.
AU - Zdziarski, A.
AU - Aboudan, A.
AU - Ajello, M.
AU - Ambrosi, G.
AU - Bernard, D.
AU - Bernardini, E.
AU - Bonvicini, V.
AU - Brogna, A.
AU - Branchesi, M.
AU - Budtz-Jorgensen, C.
AU - Bykov, A.
AU - Campana, R.
AU - Cardillo, M.
AU - Coppi, P.
AU - De Martino, D.
AU - Diehl, R.
AU - Doro, M.
AU - Fioretti, V.
AU - Funk, S.
AU - Ghisellini, G.
AU - Grove, E.
AU - Hamadache, C.
AU - Hartmann, D. H.
AU - Hayashida, M.
AU - Isern, J.
AU - Kanbach, G.
AU - Kiener, J.
AU - Knödlseder, J.
AU - Labanti, C.
AU - Laurent, P.
AU - Limousin, O.
AU - Longo, F.
AU - Mannheim, K.
AU - Marisaldi, M.
AU - Martinez, M.
AU - Mazziotta, M. N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2017/10/1
Y1 - 2017/10/1
N2 - e-ASTROGAM (‘enhanced ASTROGAM’) is a breakthrough Observatory space mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an anticoincidence system, dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV – the lower energy limit can be pushed to energies as low as 150 keV, albeit with rapidly degrading angular resolution, for the tracker, and to 30 keV for calorimetric detection. The mission is based on an advanced space-proven detector technology, with unprecedented sensitivity, angular and energy resolution, combined with polarimetric capability. Thanks to its performance in the MeV-GeV domain, substantially improving its predecessors, e-ASTROGAM will open a new window on the non-thermal Universe, making pioneering observations of the most powerful Galactic and extragalactic sources, elucidating the nature of their relativistic outflows and their effects on the surroundings. With a line sensitivity in the MeV energy range one to two orders of magnitude better than previous generation instruments, e-ASTROGAM will determine the origin of key isotopes fundamental for the understanding of supernova explosion and the chemical evolution of our Galaxy. The mission will provide unique data of significant interest to a broad astronomical community, complementary to powerful observatories such as LIGO-Virgo-GEO600-KAGRA, SKA, ALMA, E-ELT, TMT, LSST, JWST, Athena, CTA, IceCube, KM3NeT, and the promise of eLISA.
AB - e-ASTROGAM (‘enhanced ASTROGAM’) is a breakthrough Observatory space mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an anticoincidence system, dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV – the lower energy limit can be pushed to energies as low as 150 keV, albeit with rapidly degrading angular resolution, for the tracker, and to 30 keV for calorimetric detection. The mission is based on an advanced space-proven detector technology, with unprecedented sensitivity, angular and energy resolution, combined with polarimetric capability. Thanks to its performance in the MeV-GeV domain, substantially improving its predecessors, e-ASTROGAM will open a new window on the non-thermal Universe, making pioneering observations of the most powerful Galactic and extragalactic sources, elucidating the nature of their relativistic outflows and their effects on the surroundings. With a line sensitivity in the MeV energy range one to two orders of magnitude better than previous generation instruments, e-ASTROGAM will determine the origin of key isotopes fundamental for the understanding of supernova explosion and the chemical evolution of our Galaxy. The mission will provide unique data of significant interest to a broad astronomical community, complementary to powerful observatories such as LIGO-Virgo-GEO600-KAGRA, SKA, ALMA, E-ELT, TMT, LSST, JWST, Athena, CTA, IceCube, KM3NeT, and the promise of eLISA.
KW - Active Galactic Nuclei
KW - Compton and Pair Creation Telescope
KW - Cosmic Antimatter
KW - Cosmic Rays
KW - Counterparts of gravitational waves
KW - Dark Matter
KW - Early Universe
KW - Fermi
KW - Gamma-Ray Bursts
KW - High-Energy Astrophysics
KW - High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
KW - Jets
KW - Multiwavelength Observations of the Universe
KW - Nuclear Astrophysics
KW - Nucleosynthesis
KW - Outflows
KW - Supernovae
U2 - 10.1007/s10686-017-9533-6
DO - 10.1007/s10686-017-9533-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85020108036
SN - 0922-6435
VL - 44
SP - 25
EP - 82
JO - Experimental Astronomy
JF - Experimental Astronomy
IS - 1
ER -