1. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 1 The AGILE Instrument functional performance A. Argan, A. Trois (on behalf of the AGILE Team)

2. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 2 SUMMARY - Introduction - Overview on the on-board scientific data acquisition - Overview on the in-flight functional performance - Conclusions

3. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 3 INTRODUCTION - GLOBAL VIEW 1.Detector volume: ~ 0.25 m 3 2.Detector mass: ~ 120 kg 3.Detector power consumption: ~ 60 W 4.Complex data acquisition system: 1.36.864 Silicon Tracker (gamma-ray imager) channels 2.6.144 Super-Agile (hard X-ray imager) channels 3.60 Mini-Calorimeter channels 4.15 AC channels 5.27 FPGA’s 6.1 DSP The most compact and low-power Instrument ever developed in High Energy Astrophysics.

4. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 4 OVERVIEW ON THE ON-BOARD DAQ (I)

5. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 5 THE ON-BOARD DAQ (II): GRID 20 independent trigger algorithms

6. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 6 THE ON-BOARD DAQ (III): GRB SEARCH DATA HANDLING HARDWARE SOFTWARE BURST SEARCH ON TIMESCALES 64ms-8s BUS FAST LINK T E L E M E T R MCAL BURST CYCLIC BUFFER SA IMAGING IMAGES INTEGRATION RATEMETERS BURST SEARCH RATEMETERS MCAL BURST SA Burst Search on 8+9 channels (SA + MCAL) Burst Search timescales from <1ms to 8s On-board Burst coordinates determination (error ~20 arcmin) ON TIMESCALES <1ms-16ms IMAGES DECONVOLUTION AND BURST COORDINATES DETERMINATION Y

7. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 7 OVERVIEW ON THE ON-BOARD DAQ TELECOMMANDS - AC FEE configuration: - 1 TC33S5: AC Obs. configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 1 TC33S6: AC El. Cal. configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - ST FEE configuration: - 1 TC33S7: ST General Obs. configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 96 TC33S8: ST Regin configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 1 TC33S9: ST El. Cal. configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - SA FEE configuration: - 1 TC33S10: SA General Obs. configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 48 TC33S11: SA Obs. Regin configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 48 TC33S11: SA Cal. Regin configuration (RAM) - 4 TC33S12: SA El. Cal. configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - MCAL FEE configuration: - 1 TC33S13: MCAL Obs. configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 1 TC33S14: MCAL El. Cal. configuration (RAM/EEPROM)

8. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 8 - PDHU – GRID logic configuration: - 1 TC33S2: GRID HW configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 1 TC33S3: GRID SW step-1 configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 1 TC33S4: GRID SW step-2 configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 1 TC33S37: GRID SW step-3 configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - PDHU - BURST logic configuration: - 1 TC33S15: Burst Search general configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 1 TC33S16: Burst Search HW configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 4 TC33S17: SA Burst Search SW configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 4 TC33S19: MCAL Burst Search SW configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 1 TC33S18: SA Imaging configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - PDHU - General scientific configuration (managed by LTP during the Routine phase): - 1 TC33S1: Scientific general configuration (RAM/EEPROM) - 1 TC33S20: Telemetry Partition Table configuration (RAM/EEPROM) OVERVIEW ON THE ON-BOARD DAQ TELECOMMANDS

9. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 9 OVERVIEW ON THE ON-BOARD DAQ LOOK-UP TABLES - PDHU – GRID logic configuration: - ¾ Trigger: 4 LUTs Obs. + 2 LUTs Cal. - AC Veto: 4 LUTs Obs. + 1 LUT Cal. - R-Trigger: 4x8 LUTs Obs. + 2 LUTs Cal. - 1.5 Trigger: 4 LUTs - CDIS Trigger: 4 LUTs - ST Offsets: 1 LUT - FVC1: 1 LUT - FVC2: 1 LUT - Kalman Filter: 7 LUTs - PDHU – SA Photon-by-Photon configuration: - Address Corr.: 4 LUTs - PDHU - BURST logic configuration: - SA Burst Trigger: 4x4 LUTs - SA Imaging Trig.: 4 LUTs - MCAL Burst Trig.: 4x4 LUTs - MCAL BBFP: 4x4 LUTs - SA Burst Imag.: 7 LUTs

10. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 10 220 TCs (~100000 parameters) 126 LUTs OVERVIEW ON THE ON-BOARD DAQ A complete AGILE scientific configuration is composed of:

11. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 11 THE AGILE ON-GROUND TESTING (I) ACTIVITYFACILITYDATE Payload AIVThales-Aleniaspace Italia, Milano (Italy)December 2004 - October 2005 Bus AIVCarlo Gavazzi Space, Tortona (Italy)December 2004 -November 2005 GRID Calibration Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati-INFN, Frascati (Italy) November 2005 Satellite AIVCarlo Gavazzi Space, Tortona (Italy)December 2005 – May 2006 Satellite QualificationIABG, Munchen (Germany)June-July 2006 Scientific Configuration finalization Carlo Gavazzi Space, Tortona (Italy)August-September 2006 Satellite refurbishmentCarlo Gavazzi Space, Tortona (Italy)October-November 2006 Satellite AIV post refurbishment Carlo Gavazzi Space, Tortona (Italy)December 2006 Super-AGILE and MCAL-Burst Calibration Carlo Gavazzi Space, Tortona (Italy)January 2007 Satellite Qualification post refurbishment IABG, Munchen (Germany)February-March 2007 Launch Campaign Satish Dhawan Space Center SHAR, Sriharikota, Chennai (India). April 2007

12. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 12 THE AGILE INTEGRATION AND QUALIFICATION

13. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 13 AGILE integrated in the PSLV-C8 April 15, 2007 THE AGILE LAUNCH CAMPAIGN (I)

14. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 14 Fotoni a terra e in volo - I Last gamma-ray detected in India by the AGILE-GRID on top of PSLV-C8 THE AGILE LAUNCH CAMPAIGN (II)

15. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 15 THE AGILE LAUNCH The AGILE satellite was successfully launched by the Indian rocket PSLV-C8 on April 23, 2007.

16. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 16 OVERVIEW ON THE IN-ORBIT PERFORMANCE

17. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 17 SILICON TRACKER FEE CONFIGURATION - Energy Threshold (dig. value=5) => ~95% detection efficiency - 792 strips disabled (~ 2% total strips)

18. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 18 Fotoni a terra e in volo - II First gamma-ray detected in orbit with the nominal GRID trigger configuration (May 10, 2007) GRID FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE (I)

19. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 19 GRID FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE (II)

20. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 20 GRID FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE (III) The GRID Trigger background rejection Pre-trigger rate Level-1 output rate Level-1.5 output rate Level-2 output rate

21. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 21 GRID FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE (IV) TM GRID event rate: < 7Hz Max. sustainable (and measured) TM GRID event rate: 30 Hz.

22. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 22 SUPER-AGILE FEE CONFIGURATION - Energy Threshold = 18keV - 718 strips disabled (~ 12% total strips)

23. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 23 SUPER-AGILE FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE (I) by SA Team – IASF-INAF Roma - Energy Upper threshold (>100 keV) cuts ~250 cts/s. - AC Top and Lat cuts ~100 cts/s (~5% deadtime).

24. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 24 SUPER-AGILE FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE (II) by SA Team – IASF-INAF Roma TM SA event rate (with SA max temperature ≤ 26°C): < 100Hz

25. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 25 LTP SCIENTIFIC CONFIGURATION AC_FEE P108="Observation" P139="Keep Nominal Config" P170="Keep Nominal Config" P201="Keep Nominal Config" P232="Keep Actual Config" GRID P100="Observation" P101="0" P102="0" P103="0" P104="0" P105="0" P106="0" P107="0" P131="StandBy at PDHU Level" P162="Keep Normal Config" P193="Keep Normal Config" P224="StandBy at PDHU Level" SA P127="Separate SAIE Setup" P128="Observation" P129="Observation" P130="0" P158="Keep Nominal Config" P159="Keep Nominal Config" P160="Keep Nominal Config" P189="Keep Nominal Config" P190="Keep Nominal Config" P191="Keep Nominal Config" P220="Keep Nominal Config" P221="Keep Nominal Config" P222="Keep Nominal Config" P251="Keep Actual Config" P252="StandBy at FEE Level" P253="StandBy at FEE Level" SA_BURST P119="Observation" P120="2" P121="2" P122="2" P123="2" P125="1" P150="StandBy" P181="Keep Nominal Config" P212="Keep Nominal Config" P243="StandBy" MCAL_BURST P109="Observation" P110="0" P111="0" P112="0" P113="0" P114="3" P115="3" P116="3" P117="3" P140="StandBy at PDHU Level" P171="Keep Nominal Config" P202="Keep Nominal Config" P233="StandBy at PDHU Level"

26. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 26 TELEMETRY BUDGET Orbit Total telemetry per orbit (MB)

27. 5th Science AGILE Workshop – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008 27 CONCLUSIONS - The Commissioning phase has been carried out with excellent results. - The PL subsystems are in general working in a satisfactory and nominal way. In several cases, during the first year, we could improve the pre-launch performance. - During the second year, we plan to further optimize the  -rays, x-rays and MCAL functional performance.