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Science with e-ASTROGAM: A space mission for MeV–GeV gamma-ray astrophysics

2018; Elsevier BV; Volume: 19; Issue: 19 Linguagem: Inglês

2214-4056

X. Wu, D. Dorner, S. Buson, M. Tavani, Filippo Giammaria Praticò, Vedran Brdar, R. Turolla, C. Pittori, Cosimo Bambi, Sébastien Célestin, P. Carlson, J. A. Barrio, O. Limousin, A. Argan, V. Bozhilov, P. Giommi, Lara Nava, A. A. Zdziarski, J. M. Álvarez, M. Ajello, M. Doro, N. Fornengo, G. Vankova-Kirilovai, Philippe Laurent, A. Brogna, M. Ángeles Pérez-García, R.C. Shellard, F. Fuschino, D. H. Hartmann, A. Ulyanov, Nikos Prantzos, P. Lubrano, P. Vincent, J. M. Conrad, A. C. Rovero, U. Barres de Almeida, U. Oberlack, S. Mereghetti, A. Babić, Alexander Merle, J. E. Grove, G. Ghirlanda, E. Prandini, T. Terzić, T. A. Porter, D. Bastieri, G. Sala, A. Santangelo, B. Patricelli, I. Reichardt, L. Zampieri, Giorgio Galanti, G. Busetto, M. Mariotti, Marco Regis, A. Vacchi, F. Gargano, R. Mignani, S. Antón-Castillo, E. Churazov, Christoph Weniger, Thomas Siegert, T. J. Johnson, R. Rando, W. Collmar, Inga Strümke, R. D. Gehrz, J. M. Paredes, M. Persic, P. Jean, N. Giglietto, N. Produit, R. Diehl, S. Rainò, E. Lindfors, J. Rico, P. Orleański, A. Shearer, G. Zaharijaš, Daniele Gaggero, Marcos López, K. Nakazawa, Andreas Zoglauer, K. Mannheim, V. Kozhuharov, F. Longo, J. José, N. Godinović, V. Bonvicini, S. Starrfield, M. Roncadelli, Are Raklev, Ş. Balman, B. De Lotto, A. Bulgarelli, L. A. Antonelli, L. Baldini, T. Sbarrato, Merlin Kole, O. Tibolla, S. Ciprini, P. Spinelli, B. Baibussinov, S. Lombardi, M. Pohl, J. Liu, A. Franckowiak, G. Ambrosi, E. Orlando, B. Lott, S. Funk, F. Tavecchio, A. Coc, M. Busso, F. Verrecchia, G. M. Madejski, S. McBreen, M. N. Mazziotta, A. De Rosa, P. M. Saz Parkinson, A. K. Harding, J. Knödlseder, S. Lalkovski, Roberto Taverna, Andrea Addazi, S. Cutini, R. Campana, E. Bissaldi, M. Ackermann, A. Franceschini, A. Morselli, R. M. Curado da Silva, R. Paoletti, A. Pichel, Richard Bartels, Alessandro Papitto, M. Branchesi, A.D. Dolgov, Marchese Fabrizio, A. Stamerra, C. C. Cheung, Sánchez-Conde, M. Hayashida, D. J. Thompson, N. Mankuzhiyil, G. Rodriguez Fernandez, D. Bernard, J. Kiener, E. Bernardini, D. Nieto, M. Razzano, P. von Ballmoos, Antonino Marcianò, T. Bretz, B. Marcote, C. Hamadache, V. Fioretti, D. de Martino, G. Piano, S. Kaufmann, S. Paiano, G. Minervini, A. Ursi, C. Albertus, G. Ghisellini, J. Isern, C. Labanti, F. Giordano, E. Bottacini, Silvia Zane, Marina Cermeño, F. Loparco, I. Kuvvetli, W. Bednarek, M. Cardillo, C. Budtz-Jørgensen, A. Bykov, P. Coppi, D. Malyshev, S. Camera, A. Biland, R. Ruffini, P. A. Caraveo, M. Pearce, G. Kanbach, Luca Foffano, A. A. Moiseev, Stefano Dietrich, S. Zimmer, D. Dominis Prester, A. Domínguez, Marina Orio, I. Donnarumma, M. D. Leising, X. Wang, Matteo Balbo, D. Gasparrini, V. Bosch‐Ramon, Jeriek Van den Abeele, L. Foschini, M. Martı́nez, M. Pimenta, C. Gouiffès, M. Hernanz, L. Roso, Joachim Kopp, R. Walter, A. W. Strong, A. Coleiro, Torsten Bringmann, Andrzej Hryczuk, Kathleen Short, Juri Poutanen, L. Hanlon, L. Delgado, T. Bernasconi, M. Marisaldi,

Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

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 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 LISA.