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The AGILE Instrument functional performance

The AGILE Instrument functional performance. A. Argan, A. Trois (on behalf of the AGILE Team). SUMMARY. Introduction Overview on the on-board scientific data acquisition Overview on the in-flight functional performance Conclusions. The most compact and low-power Instrument

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The AGILE Instrument functional performance

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

  3. The most compact and low-power Instrument ever developed in High Energy Astrophysics. INTRODUCTION - GLOBAL VIEW • Detector volume: ~ 0.25 m3 • Detector mass: ~ 120 kg • Detector power consumption: ~ 60 W • Complex data acquisition system: • 36.864 Silicon Tracker (gamma-ray imager) channels • 6.144 Super-Agile (hard X-ray imager) channels • 60 Mini-Calorimeter channels • 15 AC channels • 27 FPGA’s • 1 DSP 5th Science AGILE Workshop  – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008

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

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

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

  8. OVERVIEW ON THE ON-BOARD DAQ TELECOMMANDS • 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) 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 5th Science AGILE Workshop  – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008

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

  11. THE AGILE ON-GROUND TESTING (I) 5th Science AGILE Workshop  – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  25. 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" 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" 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" LTP SCIENTIFIC CONFIGURATION 5th Science AGILE Workshop  – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008

  26. Total telemetry per orbit (MB) Orbit TELEMETRY BUDGET 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 g-rays, x-rays and MCAL functional performance. 5th Science AGILE Workshop  – ESRIN, Frascati, 12-13 June 2008

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