First AGILE Catalog of High Confidence Gamma-Ray Sources
Abstract
We present the first catalog of high-confidence gamma-ray sources detected by the AGILE satellite during observations performed from July 9, 2007 to June 30, 2008. Catalogued sources are detected by merging all the available data over the entire time period. AGILE, launched in April 2007, is an ASI mission devoted to gamma-ray observations in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy range, with simultaneous X-ray imaging capability in the 18-60 keV band. This catalog is based on Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector (GRID) data for energies greater than 100 MeV. For the first AGILE catalog we adopted a conservative analysis, with a high-quality event filter optimized to select gamma-ray events within the central zone of the instrument Field of View (radius of 40 degrees). This is a significance-limited (4 sigma) catalog, and it is not a complete flux-limited sample due to the non-uniform first year AGILE sky coverage. The catalog includes 47 sources, 21 of which are associated with confirmed or candidate pulsars, 13 with Blazars (7 FSRQ, 4 BL Lacs, 2 unknown type), 2 with HMXRBs, 2 with SNRs, 1 with a colliding-wind binary system, 8 with unidentified sources.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0902.2959,
title = {First AGILE Catalog of High Confidence Gamma-Ray Sources},
author = {C. Pittori and F. Verrecchia and A. W. Chen and A. Bulgarelli and A. Pellizzoni and A. Giuliani and S. Vercellone and F. Longo and M. Tavani and P. Giommi and G. Barbiellini and M. Trifoglio and F. Gianotti and A. Argan and A. Antonelli and F. Boffelli and P. Caraveo and P. W. Cattaneo and V. Cocco and S. Colafrancesco and T. Contessi and E. Costa and S. Cutini and F. D'Ammando and E. Del Monte and G. De Paris and G. Di Cocco and G. Di Persio and I. Donnarumma and Y. Evangelista and G. Fanari and M. Feroci and A. Ferrari and M. Fiorini and F. Fornari and F. Fuschino and T. Froysland and M. Frutti and M. Galli and D. Gasparrini and C. Labanti and I. Lapshov and F. Lazzarotto and F. Liello and P. Lipari and E. Mattaini and M. Marisaldi and M. Mastropietro and A. Mauri and F. Mauri and S. Mereghetti and E. Morelli and E. Moretti and A. Morselli and L. Pacciani and F. Perotti and G. Piano and P. Picozza and M. Pilia and C. Pontoni and G. Porrovecchio and B. Preger and M. Prest and R. Primavera and G. Pucella and M. Rapisarda and A. Rappoldi and E. Rossi and A. Rubini and S. Sabatini and P. Santolamazza and E. Scalise and P. Soffitta and S. Stellato and E. Striani and F. Tamburelli and A. Traci and A. Trois and E. Vallazza and V. Vittorini and A. Zambra and D. Zanello and L. Salotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.2959},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Revised version, 15 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables. To be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Text improved and clarified. Refined analysis of complex regions of the Galactic plane yields a new list of high-confidence sources including 47 sources (compared with the 40 sources appearing in the first version)