All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory: Exploring the Extreme Multimessenger Universe
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Ivan Agudo
- Function : Author
Stefano Ansoldi
- Function : Author
Natalia Auricchio
- Function : Author
John B. Stephen
- Function : Author
John Beacom
- Function : Author
Volker Beckmann
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Wlodek Bednarek
- Function : Author
Eugenio Bottacini
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Sara Buson
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Riccardo Campana
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Martina Cardillo
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Ezio Caroli
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Stefano del Sordo
- Function : Author
Mattia Di Mauro
- Function : Author
Michele Doro
- Function : Author
Elizabeth Ferrara
- Function : Author
Luca Foffano
- Function : Author
Joseph Gelfand
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- ORCID : 0000-0003-4679-1058
Andrea Giuliani
- Function : Author
Sean Griffin
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Margarita Hernanz
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Andrew Inglis
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Carolyn Kierans
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Jürgen Knödlseder
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Joachim Kopp
- Function : Author
John Krizmanic
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Philippe Laurent
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Jean-Philippe Lenain
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Amy Lien
- Function : Author
Jan Lommler
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Alexandre Marcowith
- Function : Author
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Eileen Meyer
- Function : Author
Alexander Moiseev
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Uwe Oberlack
- Function : Author
Nepomuk Otte
- Function : Author
Maria Petropoulou
- Function : Author
- PersonId : 795785
- ORCID : 0000-0001-6640-0179
Martin Pohl
- Function : Author
Bindu Rani
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Pablo Saz Parkinson
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Chris Shrader
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Jacob Smith
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Antonio Stamerra
- Function : Author
Inga Stumke
- Function : Author
Yasuyuki Tanaka
- Function : Author
Lucas Uhm
- Function : Author
Zorawar Wadiasingh
- Function : Author
David Williams
- Function : Author
- PersonId : 775424
- ORCID : 0000-0003-4033-0867
Luca Zampieri
- Function : Author
Stephan Zimmer
- Function : Author
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.