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

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.07558
• Publication Date: 2019-01-01
• Authors: Mcenery, Julie; Barrio, Juan Abel; Agudo, Ivan; Ajello, Marco; Álvarez, José-Manuel; Ansoldi, Stefano; Anton, Sonia; Auricchio, Natalia; Stephen, John B.; Baldini, Luca; Bambi, Cosimo; Baring, Matthew; Barres, Ulisses; Bastieri, Denis; Beacom, John; Beckmann, Volker; Bednarek, Wlodek; Bernard, Denis; Bissaldi, Elisabetta; Bloser, Peter; Blumer, Harsha; Boettcher, Markus; Boggs, Steven; Bolotnikov, Aleksey; Bottacini, Eugenio; Bozhilov, Vladimir; Bozzo, Enrico; Briggs, Michael, E.; Buckley, Jim; Buson, Sara; Campana, Riccardo; Caputo, Regina; Cardillo, Martina; Caroli, Ezio; Castro, Daniel; Cenko, S. Brad; Charles, Eric; Chen, Wenlei; Cheung, Teddy; Ciprini, Stefano; Coppi, Paolo; da Silva, Rui Curado; Cutini, Sara; d'Ammando, Filippo; de Angelis, Aless...; de Becker, Michaël; de Nolfo, Georgia; del Sordo, Stefano; Di Mauro, Mattia; Di Venere, Leonardo; Dietrich, Stefano; Digel, Seth, W.; Dominguez, Alberto; Doro, Michele; Ferrara, Elizabeth; Fields, Brian; Finke, Justin; Foffano, Luca; Fryer, Chris; Fukazawa, Yasushi; Funk, Stefan; Gasparrini, Dario; Gelfand, Joseph; Georganopoulos, M...; Giordano, Francesco; Giuliani, Andrea; Gouiffès, Christian; Grefenstette, Brian; Grenier, Isabelle; Griffin, Sean; Grove, Eric; Guiriec, Sylvain; Harding, Alice; Harding, Pat; Hartmann, Dieter; Hays, Elizabeth; Hernanz, Margarita; Hewitt, Jack; Holder, Jamie; Hui, Michelle; Inglis, Andrew; Johnson, Robert; Jones, Sam; Kanbach, Gottfried; Kargaltsev, Oleg; Kaufmann, Sarah; Kerr, Matthew; Kierans, Carolyn; Kislat, Fabian; Klimenko, Alexei V.; Knödlseder, Jürgen; Kocveski, Daniel; Kopp, Joachim; Krawczynsiki, Henric; Krizmanic, John; Kubo, Hidetoshi; Neilson, Naoko Ku...; Laurent, Philippe; Lenain, Jean-Phil...; Li, Hui; Lien, Amy; Linden, Tim; Lommler, Jan; Longo, Francesco; Lovellette, Michael; Lopez, Marcos; Manousakis, Antonios; Marcotulli, Lea; Marcowith, Alexandre; Martinez, Manel; Mcconnell, Marc; Metcalfe, Jessica; Meyer, Eileen; Meyer, Manuel; Mignani, Roberto, P.; Mitchell, John, C.; Mizuno, Tsunefumi; Moiseev, Alexander; Morcuende, Daniel; Moskalenko, Igor; Moss, Michael; Nakazawa, Kazuhiro; Mazziotta, M. Nicola; Oberlack, Uwe; Ohno, Masanori; Oikonomou, Foteini; Ojha, Roopesh; Omodei, Nicola; Orlando, Elena; Otte, Nepomuk; Paliya, Vaidehi S; Parker, Lucas; Patricelli, Barbara; Perkins, Jeremy; Petropoulou, Maria; Pittori, Carlotta; Pohl, Martin; Porter, Troy; Prandini, Elisa; Prescod-Weinstein...; Racusin, Judith; Rando, Riccardo; Rani, Bindu; Ribo, Marc; Rodi, James; Sanchez-Conde, Mi...; Parkinson, Pablo Saz; Schirato, Richard; Shawhan, Peter; Shrader, Chris; Smith, Jacob; Smith, Karl; Stamerra, Antonio; Stawarz, Lukasz; Strong, Andy; Stumke, Inga; Tajima, Hiro; Takahashi, Hiromitsu; Tanaka, Yasuyuki; Tatischeff, Vincent; The, Lih-Sin; Thompson, David; Tibaldo, Luigi; Tomsick, John, A.; Uhm, Lucas; Venters, Tonia; Vestrand, Tom; Vianello, Giacomo; Wadiasingh, Zorawar; Walter, Roland; Wang, Xilu; Williams, David; Wilson-Hodge, Col...; Wood, Matthew; Woolf, Richard; Wulf, Eric; Younes, George; Zampieri, Luca; Zane, Silvia; Zhang, Bing; Zhang, Haocheng; Zimmer, Stephan; Zoglauer, Andreas; van Der Horst, Al...; Rico, Javier
• Keywords: [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO]; High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE]; 13. Climate action; 0103 physical sciences; FOS: Physical sciences; Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics; Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena; 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

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.<br/>Astro2020 APC White Paper Updated to make small change to author list in metadata<br/>