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Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 138, Number 3, September 1999
Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era Contents Rome, November 3-6, 1998
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Page(s) | 569 - 570 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1999357 | |
Published online | 15 September 1999 |
The AGILE contribution to GRBs studies
1
Istituto di Fisica Cosmica "G. Occhialini”, CNR, Milano, Italy
2
Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.
3
University of Trieste and INFN, Trieste, Italy
4
University of Roma "Tor Vergata" and INFN, Roma, Italy
5
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale, CNR, Roma, Italy
6
Istituto di Tecnologie e Studio delle Radiazioni Extraterrestri, CNR, Bologna, Italy
7
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Roma, Italy
Send offprint request to: F. Longo
Received:
21
January
1999
Accepted:
28
May
1999
AGILE is a gamma-ray mission planned to be operating as an Observatory
during the period
2002-2005. Its baseline instrument is designed to
detect gamma rays in the band.
AGILE's good sensitivity, very large field of view (
of the
whole sky), and excellent timing capability (
ms deadtime)
are ideal to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).
AGILE is expected to detect ~10 GRBs per year at energies above 100 MeV.
The Super–AGILE option might be able to localize GRBs within a
few arcminutes and provide additional information in the hard
X-ray band.
A rapid alert program is an essential part of the
scientific goals of the AGILE Observatory.
Key words: gamma-ray: bursts
© European Southern Observatory (ESO), 1999