Speaker
Dr
Immacolata Donnarumma
(INAF-IAPS)
Description
We will present the AGILE capabilities to detect the electromagnetic counterparts of Gravitational Wave (GW) sources recently discovered by LIGO. The follow-up of the events discovered so far and the perspective for future discoveries will be discussed.
The combination of Tracker, miniCalorimeter, Anti Coincidence as a gamma-ray imager, makes the AGILE-GRID an optimal instrument for follow-up observations of large localization regions of GW sources. This can be achieved thanks to the following characteristics: 1) a very large FoV (2.5 sr), 2) an accessible sky of about 80% every 7 minutes with a sensitivity of 10-8 erg cm-2 s-1 at E > 30 MeV on ~ 100 s, 3) sub-millisecond trigger for very fast events detectable by MCAL in the range 0.4-100 MeV.
In addition to them, the improved localization capability (2-3 arcmin) expected to be provided by the reactivation of the hard X-ray monitor, SuperAGILE.
Primary author
Dr
Immacolata Donnarumma
(INAF-IAPS)
