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All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory: Exploring the Extreme Multimessenger Universe

Julie McEnery·Juan Abel Barrio·Ivan Agudo·Marco Ajello·José-Manuel Álvarez·Stefano Ansoldi·Sonia Anton·Natalia Auricchio·John B. Stephen·Luca Baldini·Cosimo Bambi·Matthew Baring·Ulisses Barres·Denis Bastieri·John Beacom·Volker Beckmann·Wlodek Bednarek·Denis Bernard·Elisabetta Bissaldi·Peter Bloser·Harsha Blumer·Markus Boettcher·Steven Boggs·Aleksey Bolotnikov·Eugenio Bottacini·Vladimir Bozhilov·Enrico Bozzo·Michael Briggs·Jim Buckley·Eric Burns·Sara Buson·Riccardo Campana·Regina Caputo·Martina Cardillo·Ezio Caroli·Daniel Castro·S. Brad Cenko·Eric Charles·Wenlei Chen·Teddy Cheung·Stefano Ciprini·Paolo Coppi·Rui Curado da Silva·Sara Cutini·Filippo D'Ammando·Alessandro De Angelis·Michaël De Becker·Georgia De Nolfo·Stefano Del Sordo·Mattia Di Mauro·Leonardo Di Venere·Stefano Dietrich·Seth Digel·Alberto Dominguez·Michele Doro·Elizabeth Ferrara·Brian Fields·Justin Finke·Luca Foffano·Chris Fryer·Yasushi Fukazawa·Stefan Funk·Dario Gasparrini·Joseph Gelfand·Markos Georganopoulos·Francesco Giordano·Andrea Giuliani·Christian Gouiffes·Brian Grefenstette·Isabelle Grenier·Sean Griffin·Eric Grove·Sylvain Guiriec·Alice Harding·Pat Harding·Dieter Hartmann·Elizabeth Hays·Margarita Hernanz·Jack Hewitt·Jamie Holder·Michelle Hui·Andrew Inglis·Robert Johnson·Sam Jones·Gottfried Kanbach·Oleg Kargaltsev·Sarah Kaufmann·Matthew Kerr·Carolyn Kierans·Fabian Kislat·Alexei V. Klimenko·Jurgen Knodlseder·Daniel Kocveski·Joachim Kopp·Henric Krawczynsiki·John Krizmanic·Hidetoshi Kubo·Naoko Kurahashi Neilson·Philippe Laurent·Jean-Philippe Lenain
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Abstract

The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) is a probe class mission concept that will provide essential contributions to multimessenger astrophysics in the late 2020s and beyond. AMEGO combines high sensitivity in the 200 keV to 10 GeV energy range with a wide field of view, good spectral resolution, and polarization sensitivity. Therefore, AMEGO is key in the study of multimessenger astrophysical objects that have unique signatures in the gamma-ray regime, such as neutron star mergers, supernovae, and flaring active galactic nuclei. The order-of-magnitude improvement compared to previous MeV missions also enables discoveries of a wide range of phenomena whose energy output peaks in the relatively unexplored medium-energy gamma-ray band.

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Julie McEnery, Juan Abel Barrio, Ivan Agudo, Marco Ajello, José-Manuel Álvarez, Stefano Ansoldi, Sonia Anton, Natalia Auricchio, John B. Stephen, Luca Baldini, Cosimo Bambi, Matthew Baring, Ulisses Barres, Denis Bastieri, John Beacom, Volker Beckmann, Wlodek Bednarek, Denis Bernard, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Peter Bloser, Harsha Blumer, Markus Boettcher, Steven Boggs, Aleksey Bolotnikov, Eugenio Bottacini, Vladimir Bozhilov, Enrico Bozzo, Michael Briggs, Jim Buckley, Eric Burns, Sara Buson, Riccardo Campana, Regina Caputo, Martina Cardillo, Ezio Caroli, Daniel Castro, S. Brad Cenko, Eric Charles, Wenlei Chen, Teddy Cheung, Stefano Ciprini, Paolo Coppi, Rui Curado da Silva, Sara Cutini, Filippo D'Ammando, Alessandro De Angelis, Michaël De Becker, Georgia De Nolfo, Stefano Del Sordo, Mattia Di Mauro, Leonardo Di Venere, Stefano Dietrich, Seth Digel, Alberto Dominguez, Michele Doro, Elizabeth Ferrara, Brian Fields, Justin Finke, Luca Foffano, Chris Fryer, Yasushi Fukazawa, Stefan Funk, Dario Gasparrini, Joseph Gelfand, Markos Georganopoulos, Francesco Giordano, Andrea Giuliani, Christian Gouiffes, Brian Grefenstette, Isabelle Grenier, Sean Griffin, Eric Grove, Sylvain Guiriec, Alice Harding, Pat Harding, Dieter Hartmann, Elizabeth Hays, Margarita Hernanz, Jack Hewitt, Jamie Holder, Michelle Hui, Andrew Inglis, Robert Johnson, Sam Jones, Gottfried Kanbach, Oleg Kargaltsev, Sarah Kaufmann, Matthew Kerr, Carolyn Kierans, Fabian Kislat, Alexei V. Klimenko, Jurgen Knodlseder, Daniel Kocveski, Joachim Kopp, Henric Krawczynsiki, John Krizmanic, Hidetoshi Kubo, Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Philippe Laurent, Jean-Philippe Lenain. 2019-07-17. All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory: Exploring the Extreme Multimessenger Universe. https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07558

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