Prospects for high energy studies of pulsars with the AGILE γ-ray telescope

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 625-629

  Pellizzoni, A ^a   Chen, A ^a,b   Conti, M ^a   Giuliani, A ^a,b   Mereghetti, S ^a   Tavani, M ^a   Vercellone, S ^a  

^a INAF IASF MILANO   (Italy)

^b Consorzio Interunivdi FisSpaziale ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

AGILE telescope; High energy astrophysics; Pulsars; ray astronomy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; GAMMA RAYS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADAR ASTRONOMY;

RADIO PULSAR CATALOGS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 1842640312     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2003.07.029     Document Type: Article

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