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The AGILE gamma-ray detector

A. Morselli, A. Perrino, P. Picozza, S. Severoni, P. Caraveo, S. Mereghetti, M. Tavani, G. Barbiellini, A. Vacchi

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9901183

Abstract

The gamma-ray detector AGILE, operating in the energy range from 30 MeV to 50 GeV, is composed by a tracking part, a light calorimeter and an anticoincidence system. Here we describe the detector and its capabilities to determine the arrival direction and energy of the detected photons.

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