All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept

Regina Caputo; Marco Ajello; Carolyn A. Kierans; Jeremy S. Perkins; Judith L. Racusin; Luca Baldini; Matthew G. Baring; Elisabetta Bissaldi; Eric Burns; Nicholas Cannady; Eric Charles; Rui M.Curado Da Silva; Ke Fang; Henrike Fleischhack; Chris Fryer; Yasushi Fukazawa; J. Eric Grove; Dieter Hartmann; Eric J. Howell; Manoj Jadhav; Christopher M. Karwin; Daniel Kocevski; Naoko Kurahashi; Luca Latronico; Tiffany R. Lewis; Richard Leys; Amy Lien; Lea Marcotulli; Israel Martinez-Castellanos; Mario Nicola Mazziotta; Julie McEnery; Jessica Metcalfe; Kohta Murase; Michela Negro; Lucas Parker; Bernard Phlips; Chanda Prescod-Weinstein; Soebur Razzaque; Peter S. Shawhan; Yong Sheng; Tom A. Shutt; Daniel Shy; Clio Sleator; Amanda L. Steinhebel; Nicolas Striebig; Yusuke Suda; Donggeun Tak; Hiro Tajima; Janeth Valverde; Tonia M. Venters; Zorawar Wadiasingh; Richard S. Woolf; Eric A. Wulf; Haocheng Zhang; Andreas Zoglauer

doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.8.4.044003

All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept

Regina Caputo
, Marco Ajello
, Carolyn A. Kierans
, Jeremy S. Perkins
, Judith L. Racusin
, Luca Baldini
, Matthew G. Baring
, Elisabetta Bissaldi
, Eric Burns
, Nicholas Cannady
, Eric Charles
, Rui M.Curado Da Silva
, Ke Fang
, Henrike Fleischhack
, Chris Fryer
, Yasushi Fukazawa
, J. Eric Grove
, Dieter Hartmann
, Eric J. Howell
, Manoj Jadhav

Christopher M. Karwin, Daniel Kocevski, Naoko Kurahashi, Luca Latronico, Tiffany R. Lewis, Richard Leys, Amy Lien, Lea Marcotulli, Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Mario Nicola Mazziotta, Julie McEnery, Jessica Metcalfe, Kohta Murase, Michela Negro, Lucas Parker, Bernard Phlips, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Soebur Razzaque, Peter S. Shawhan, Yong Sheng, Tom A. Shutt, Daniel Shy, Clio Sleator, Amanda L. Steinhebel, Nicolas Striebig, Yusuke Suda, Donggeun Tak, Hiro Tajima, Janeth Valverde, Tonia M. Venters, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Richard S. Woolf, Eric A. Wulf, Haocheng Zhang, Andreas Zoglauer

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	044003
Journal	Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Volume	8
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.4.044003
State	Published - Oct 1 2022
Externally published	Yes

Funding

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.

Keywords

gamma-ray mission
gamma-ray telescope
high-energy astrophysics
multimessenger

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Caputo, R., Ajello, M., Kierans, C. A., Perkins, J. S., Racusin, J. L., Baldini, L., Baring, M. G., Bissaldi, E., Burns, E., Cannady, N., Charles, E., Da Silva, R. M. C., Fang, K., Fleischhack, H., Fryer, C., Fukazawa, Y., Grove, J. E., Hartmann, D., Howell, E. J., ... Zoglauer, A. (2022). All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 8(4), Article 044003. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.4.044003

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