All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory: Exploring the Extreme Multimessenger Universe
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2019-07-10
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Julie E. McEnery, Ojha R, Georganopoulos Markos, Meyer Eileen, 2019,All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory: Exploring the Extreme Multimessenger Universe,https://113qx216in8z1kdeyi404hgf-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/245_mcenery.pdf
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The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) is a probe class mission concept that will provide essential contributions to multimessenger astrophysics in the late 2020s and beyond. AMEGO combines high sensitivity in the 200 keV to 10 GeV energy range with a wide field of view, good spectral resolution, and polarization sensitivity. Therefore, AMEGO is key in the study of multimessenger astrophysical objects that have unique signatures in the gamma-ray regime, such as neutron star mergers, supernovae, and flaring active galactic nuclei. The order-of-magnitude improvement compared to previous MeV missions also enables discoveries of a wide range of phenomena whose energy output peaks in the relatively unexplored medium-energy gamma-ray band.