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The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer (AMEGO-X) Mission Concept
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Working Paper
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Caputo, Regina; Ajello, Marco; Kierans, Carolyn; Perkins, Jeremy; Racusin, Judith; Baldini, Luca; Barring, Matthew; Bissaldi, Elisabetta; Burns, Eric; Cannady, Nicolas; Charles, Eric; da Silva, Rui Curado; Fang, Ke; Fleischhack, Henrike; Fryer, Chris; Fukazawa, Yasushi; Grove, J. Eric; Hartmann, Dieter; Howell, Eric; Jadhav, Manoj; Karwin, Christopher; Kocevski, Daniel; Kurahashi, Naoko; Latronico, Luca; Lewis, Tiffany; Leys, Richard; Lien, Amy; Marcotulli, Lea; Martinez-Castellanos, Israel; Mazziotta, Mario Nicola; McEnery, Julie; Metcalfe, Jessica; Murase, Kohta; Negro, Michela; Parker, Lucas; Phlips, Bernard; Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda; Razzaque, Soebur; Shawhan, Peter; Sheng, Yong; Shutt, Tom; Shy, Daniel; Sleator, Clio; Steinhebel, Amanda; Striebig, Nicolas; Suda, Yusuke; Tak, Donggeun; Tajima, Hiroyasu; Valverde, Janeth; Venters, Tonia; Wadiasingh, Zorawar; Woolf, Richard; Wulf, Eric; Zhang, Haocheng; Zoglauer, Andreas
Source
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 044003 (October 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; and 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 three-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 emission. AMEGO-X was submitted in the recent 2021 NASA MIDEX Announcement of Opportunity.
Comment: 23 pages, 16 figures, Published Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Comment: 23 pages, 16 figures, Published Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems