The e-ASTROGAM mission (exploring the extreme Universe with gamma rays in the MeV-GeV range)
Creators: name: De Angelis, Alessandro
name: Tatischeff, Vincent
name: Tavani, Marco
name: Oberlack, Uwe
name: Grenier, Isabelle A.
name: Hanlon, Lorraine
name: Walter, Roland
name: Argan, Andrea
name: von Ballmoos, Peter
name: Bulgarelli, Andrea
name: Donnarumma, Immacolata
name: Hernanz, Margarita
name: Kuvvetli, Irfan
name: Pearce, Mark
name: Zdziarski, Andrzej
name: Aboudan, Alessio
name: Ajello, Marco
name: Ambrosi, Giovanni
name: Bernard, Denis
name: Bernardini, Elisa
name: Bonvicini, Valter
name: Brogna, Andrea
name: Branchesi, Marica
name: Budtz-Jorgensen, Carl
name: Bykov, Andrei
name: Campana, Riccardo
name: Cardillo, Martina
name: Coppi, Paolo
name: De Martino, Domitilla
name: Diehl, Roland
name: Doro, Michele
name: Fioretti, Valentina
name: Funk, Stefan
name: Ghisellini, Gabriele
name: Grove, J. Eric
name: Hamadache, Clarisse
name: Hartmann, Dieter H.
name: Hayashida, Masaaki
name: Isern, Jordi
name: Kanbach, Gottfried
name: Kiener, Jurgen
name: Knodlseder, Jurgen
name: Labanti, Claudio
name: Laurent, Philippe
name: Limousin, Olivier
name: Longo, Francesco
name: Mannheim, Karl
name: Marisaldi, Martino
name: Martinez, Manel
name: Mazziotta, Mario N.
name: McEnery, Julie
name: Mereghetti, Sandro
name: Minervini, Gabriele
name: Moiseev, Alexander
name: Morselli, Aldo
name: Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
name: Orleanski, Piotr
name: Paredes, Josep M.
name: Patricelli, Barbara
name: Peyre, Jean
name: Piano, Giovanni
name: Pohl, Martin
name: Ramarijaona, Harald
name: Rando, Riccardo
name: Reichardt, Ignasi
name: Roncadelli, Marco
name: da Silva, Rui Curado
name: Tavecchio, Fabrizio
name: Thompson, David J.
name: Turolla, Roberto
name: Ulyanov, Alexei
name: Vacchi, Andrea
name: Wu, Xin
name: Zoglauer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: e-ASTROGAM (`enhanced ASTROGAM') is a breakthrough Observatory mission dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV. The mission is based on an advanced space-proven detector technology, with unprecedented sensitivity, angular and energy resolution, combined with polarimetric capability. In the largely unexplored MeV-GeV domain, 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 Galactic ecosystems. With a line sensitivity in the MeV energy range one to two orders of magnitude better than previous generation instruments, 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 the promise of eLISA. Keywords: High-energy gamma-ray astronomy, High-energy astrophysics, Nuclear Astrophysics, Compton and Pair creation telescope, Gamma-ray bursts, Active Galactic Nuclei, Jets, Outflows, Multiwavelength observations of the Universe, Counterparts of gravitational waves, Fermi, Dark Matter, Nucleosynthesis, Early Universe, Supernovae, Cosmic Rays, Cosmic antimatter.
description: Exp Astron (2017)