Welcome to the AGILE Data Center Home Page at SSDC
These pages provide updated information and services in support to the general scientific community for the mission AGILE, which is a small Scientific Mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) with participation of INFN, IASF/INAF and CIFS .
AGILE is devoted to gamma-ray astrophysics and it is a first and unique combination of a gamma-ray (AGILE-GRID) and a hard X-ray (SuperAGILE) instrument, for the simultaneous detection and imaging of photons in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV and in the 18 - 60 keV energy ranges.
The AGILE Mission Board (AMB) has executive power overseeing all the scientific matters of the AGILE Mission and is composed of:
- AGILE Principal Investigator: Marco Tavani, INAF-IAPS Rome (Chair)
- ASI Project Scientist: Paolo Giommi, ASI-SSDC
- ASI Mission Director: Fabio D'Amico, ASI
(Former ASI Mission Directors: Luca Salotti, up to September 20, 2010 and Giovanni Valentini up to January 22, 2015)
- AGILE Co-Principal Investigator: Guido Barbiellini, INFN Trieste
- 1 ASI representative: Elisabetta Tommasi di Vignano
(Former ASI representative: Sergio Colafrancesco up to June, 2010)