Related papers: The AGILE Mission

Characterization of a tagged $\gamma$-ray beam line at the DA$\Phi$NE Beam Test Facility

At the core of the AGILE scientific instrument, designed to operate on a satellite, there is the Gamma Ray Imaging Detector (GRID) consisting of a Silicon Tracker (ST), a Cesium Iodide Mini-Calorimeter and an Anti-Coincidence system of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-03-13 P. W. Cattaneo , A. Argan , F. Boffelli , A. Bulgarelli , B. Buonomo , A. W. Chen , F. D'Ammando , T. Froysland , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , M. Marisaldi , G. Mazzitelli , A. Pellizzoni , M. Prest , G. Pucella , L. Quintieri , A. Rappoldi , M. Tavani , M. Trifoglio , A. Trois , P. Valente , E. Vallazza , S. Vercellone , A. Zambra , G. Barbiellini , P. Caraveo , V. Cocco , E. Costa , G. De Paris , E. Del Monte , G. Di Cocco , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , A. Ferrari , M. Fiorini , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , M. Mastropietro , S. Mereghetti , E. Morelli , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , F. Perotti , G. Piano , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , G. Porrovecchio , M. Rapisarda , A. Rubini , S. Sabatini , P. Soffitta , E. Striani , V. Vittorini , D. Zanello , S. Colafrancesco , P. Giommi , C. Pittori , P. Santolamazza , F. Verrecchia , L. Salotti

GRB 070724B: the first Gamma Ray Burst localized by SuperAGILE and its Swift X-ray Afterglow

GRB 070724B is the first Gamma Ray Burst localized by SuperAGILE, the hard X-ray monitor aboard the AGILE satellite. The coordinates of the event were published $\sim 19$ hours after the trigger. The Swift X-Ray Telescope pointed at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Del Monte , M. Feroci , L. Pacciani , Y. Evangelista , I. Donnarumma , P. Soffitta , E. Costa , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , M. Rapisarda , A. Argan , G. Barbiellini , M. Basset , A. Bulgarelli , P. Caraveo , A. Chen , G. Di Cocco , L. Foggetta , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , A. Giuliani , C. Labanti , P. Lipari , F. Longo , M. Marisaldi , F. Mauri , S. Mereghetti , A. Morselli , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , P. Picozza , M. Prest , G. Pucella , M. Tavani , M. Trifoglio , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , S. Vercellone , V. Vittorini , A. Zambra , P. Romano , D. N. Burrows , G. Chincarini , N. Gehrels , V. La Parola , P. T. O'Brien , J. P. Osborne , B. Preger , C. Pittori , L. A. Antonelli , F. Verrecchia , P. Giommi , L. Salotti

Gamma-Ray Localization of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes

Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs) are very short bursts of high energy photons and electrons originating in Earth's atmosphere. We present here a localization study of TGFs carried out at gamma-ray energies above 20 MeV based on an…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2010-12-13 M. Marisaldi , A. Argan , A. Trois , A. Giuliani , M. Tavani , C. Labanti , F. Fuschino , A. Bulgarelli , F. Longo , G. Barbiellini , E. Del Monte , E. Moretti , M. Trifoglio , E. Costa , P. Caraveo , P. W. Cattaneo , A. Chen , F. D'Ammando , G. De Paris , G. Di Cocco , G. Di Persio , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , A. Ferrari , M. Fiorini , T. Froysland , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , S. Mereghetti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , P. Picozza , G. Piano , M. Pilia , M. Prest , G. Pucella , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , A. Rubini , S. Sabatini , P. Soffitta , E. Striani , E. Vallazza , S. Vercellone , V. Vittorini , A. Zambra , D. Zanello , L. A. Antonelli , S. Colafrancesco , S. Cutini , P. Giommi , F. Lucarelli , C. Pittori , P. Santolamazza , F. Verrecchia , L. Salotti

AGILE monitoring of the microquasar Cygnus X-3

AGILE data on Cygnus X-3 are reviewed focussing on the correlation between the production of gamma-ray transient emission and spectral state changes of the source. AGILE clearly establishes a relation between enhanced gamma-ray emission and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 G. Piano , A. Bulgarelli , M. Tavani , V. Vittorini , M. McCollough , G. Pooley , S. Trushkin

AGILE study of the gamma-ray emission from the SNR G78.2+2.1 (Gamma Cygni)

We present a study on the gamma-ray emission detected by the AGILE-GRID from the region of the SNR G78.2+2.1 (Gamma Cygni). In order to investigate the possible presence of gamma rays associated with the SNR below 1 GeV, it is necessary to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 G. Piano , M. Cardillo , M. Pilia , A. Trois , A. Giuliani , A. Bulgarelli , N. Parmiggiani , M. Tavani

First results about on-ground calibration of the Silicon Tracker for the AGILE satellite

The AGILE scientific instrument has been calibrated with a tagged $\gamma$-ray beam at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF). The goal of the calibration was the measure of the Point Spread Function…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-13 AGILE Collaboration , P. W. Cattaneo , A. Argan , F. Boffelli , A. Bulgarelli , B. Buonomo , A. W. Chen , F. D'Ammando , T. Froysland , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , M. Marisaldi , G. Mazzitelli , A. Pellizzoni , M. Prest , G. Pucella , L. Quintieri , A. Rappoldi , M. Tavani , M. Trifoglio , A. Trois , P. Valente , E. Vallazza , S. Vercellone , A. Zambra , G. Barbiellini , P. Caraveo , V. Cocco , E. Costa , G. De Paris , E. Del Monte , G. Di Cocco , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , A. Ferrari , M. Fiorini , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , M. Mastropietro , S. Mereghetti , E. Morelli , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , F. Perotti , G. Piano , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , G. Porrovecchio , M. Rapisarda , A. Rubini , S. Sabatini , P. Soffitta , E. Striani , V. Vittorini , D. Zanello , S. Colafrancesco , P. Giommi , C. Pittori , P. Santolamazza , F. Verrecchia , L. Salotti

The e-ASTROGAM gamma-ray space mission

The e-ASTROGAM is a gamma-ray space mission to be proposed as the M5 Medium-size mission of the European Space Agency. It is dedicated to the observation of the Universe with unprecedented sensitivity in the energy range 0.2 - 100 MeV,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 V. Tatischeff , M. Tavani , P. von Ballmoos , L. Hanlon , U. Oberlack , A. Aboudan , A. Argan , D. Bernard , A. Brogna , A. Bulgarelli , A. Bykov , R. Campana , P. Caraveo , M. Cardillo , P. Coppi , A. De Angelis , R. Diehl , I. Donnarumma , V. Fioretti , A. Giuliani , I. Grenier , J. E. Grove , C. Hamadache , D. Hartmann , M. Hernanz , J. Isern , G. Kanbach , J. Kiener , J. Knödlseder , C. Labanti , P. Laurent , O. Limousin , F. Longo , M. Marisaldi , S. McBreen , J. E. McEnery , S. Mereghetti , F. Mirabel , A. Morselli , K. Nakazawa , J. Peyré , G. Piano , C. Pittori , S. Sabatini , L. Stawarz , D. J. Thompson , A. Ulyanov , R. Walter , X. Wu , A. Zdziarski , A. Zoglauer

The AGILE observations of the hard and bright GRB 100724B

The observation of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the gamma-ray band has been advanced by the AGILE and Fermi satellites after the era of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. AGILE and Fermi are showing that the GeV-bright GRBs share a set of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 E. Del Monte , G. Barbiellini , I. Donnarumma , F. Fuschino , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , M. Marisaldi , G. Pucella , M. Tavani , M. Trifoglio , A. Trois , A. Argan , A. Bulgarelli , P. Caraveo , P. W. Cattaneo , A. Chen , E. Costa , F. D'Ammando , G. Di Cocco , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , S. Mereghetti , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , G. Piano , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , M. Prest , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , S. Sabatini , P. Soffitta , E. Striani , E. Vallazza , S. Vercellone , V. Vittorini , L. A. Antonelli , S. Cutini , C. Pittori , P. Santolamazza , F. Verrecchia , P. Giommi , L. Salotti

INTEGRAL observations of GW170104

We used data from the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) to set upper-limits on the ${\gamma}$-ray and hard X-ray prompt emission associated with the gravitational wave event GW170104, discovered by the LIGO/Virgo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 V. Savchenko , C. Ferrigno , E. Bozzo , A. Bazzano , S. Brandt , J. Chenevez , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , R. Diehl , L. Hanlon , A. von Kienlin , E. Kuulkers , P. Laurent , F. Lebrun , A. Lutovinov , A. Martin-Carillo , S. Mereghetti , J. P. Roques , R. Sunyaev , P. Ubertini

AGILE detection of Cygnus X-3 {\gamma}-ray active states during the period mid-2009/mid-2010

Cygnus X-3 (Cyg X-3) is a well-known microquasar producing variable emission at all wavelengths. Cyg X-3 is a prominent X-ray binary producing relativistic jets, and studying its high energy emission is crucial for the understanding of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-22 A. Bulgarelli , M. Tavani , A. W. Chen , Y. Evangelista , M. Trifoglio , F. Gianotti , G. Piano , S. Sabatini , E. Striani , G. Pooley , S. Trushkin , N. A. Nizhelskij , M. McCollough , K. I. I. Koljonen , D. Hannikainen , A. Lähteenmäki , J. Tammi , N. Lavonen , D. Steeghs , A. Aboudan , A. Argan , G. Barbiellini , R. Campana , P. Caraveo , P. W. Cattaneo , V. Cocco , T. Contessi , E. Costa , F. D'Ammando , E. Del Monte , G. De Paris , G. Di Cocco , I. Donnarumma , M. Feroci , M. Fiorini , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , A. Giuliani , M. Giusti , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , F. Longo , M. Marisaldi , S. Mereghetti , E. Morelli , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , M. Prest , G. Pucella , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , A. Rubini , P. Soffitta , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , S. Vercellone , V. Vittorini , A. Zambra , D. Zanello , P. Giommi , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , P. Santolamazza , F. Lucarelli , S. Colafrancesco , L. Salotti

The e-ASTROGAM mission (exploring the extreme Universe with gamma rays in the MeV-GeV range)

e-ASTROGAM (`enhanced ASTROGAM') is a breakthrough Observatory mission dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV. The mission is based on an advanced space-proven detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-06 Alessandro De Angelis , Vincent Tatischeff , Marco Tavani , Uwe Oberlack , Isabelle A. Grenier , Lorraine Hanlon , Roland Walter , Andrea Argan , Peter von Ballmoos , Andrea Bulgarelli , Immacolata Donnarumma , Margarita Hernanz , Irfan Kuvvetli , Mark Pearce , Andrzej Zdziarski , Alessio Aboudan , Marco Ajello , Giovanni Ambrosi , Denis Bernard , Elisa Bernardini , Valter Bonvicini , Andrea Brogna , Marica Branchesi , Carl Budtz-Jorgensen , Andrei Bykov , Riccardo Campana , Martina Cardillo , Paolo Coppi , Domitilla De Martino , Roland Diehl , Michele Doro , Valentina Fioretti , Stefan Funk , Gabriele Ghisellini , J. Eric Grove , Clarisse Hamadache , Dieter H. Hartmann , Masaaki Hayashida , Jordi Isern , Gottfried Kanbach , Jurgen Kiener , Jurgen Knodlseder , Claudio Labanti , Philippe Laurent , Olivier Limousin , Francesco Longo , Karl Mannheim , Martino Marisaldi , Manel Martinez , Mario N. Mazziotta , Julie McEnery , Sandro Mereghetti , Gabriele Minervini , Alexander Moiseev , Aldo Morselli , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Piotr Orleanski , Josep M. Paredes , Barbara Patricelli , Jean Peyre , Giovanni Piano , Martin Pohl , Harald Ramarijaona , Riccardo Rando , Ignasi Reichardt , Marco Roncadelli , Rui Curado da Silva , Fabrizio Tavecchio , David J. Thompson , Roberto Turolla , Alexei Ulyanov , Andrea Vacchi , Xin Wu , Andreas Zoglauer

A new gamma-ray source unveiled by AGILE in the region of Orion

Diffuse galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by the interaction of cosmic rays (CRs) with the interstellar environment. The study of gamma-ray emission is therefore a powerful tool to investigate the origin of CRs and the processes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 N. Marchili , G. Piano , M. Cardillo , A. Giuliani , S. Molinari , M. Tavani

AGILE: an end-to-end Rubin-LSST simulation of AGNs, galaxies, and stars I. Software description and first data release

Contemporary large-scale surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and Euclid present an unprecedented discovery potential for studying AGNs at the population level in the big data era. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-18 A. Viitanen , A. Bongiorno , I. Saccheo , A. Grazian , M. Paolillo , V. Petrecca , D. De Cicco , D. Roberts , F. Shankar , V. Allevato , E. Merlin , D. Ilić , A. B. Kovačević G. De Somma , M. Di Criscienzo , L. Girardi , M. Marconi , A. Mazzi , G. Pastorelli , M. Trabucchi , T. Ananna , R. J. Assef , W. N. Brandt , M. Brescia , A. W. Graham , G. Li , D. Marsango , A. Peca , M. Polioudakis , C. M. Raiteri , B. Rani , C. Ricci , G. Richards , M. Salvato , S. Satheesh-Sheeba , R. Shirley , S. Tang , M. J. Temple , F. Tombesi , I. Yoon , F. Zou

Multifrequency monitoring of the blazar 0716+714 during the GASP-WEBT-AGILE campaign of 2007

Since the CGRO operation in 1991-2000, one of the primary unresolved questions about the blazar gamma-ray emission has been its possible correlation with the low-energy (in particular optical) emission. To help answer this problem, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Villata , C. M. Raiteri , V. M. Larionov , O. M. Kurtanidze , K. Nilsson , M. F. Aller , M. Tornikoski , A. Volvach

Gamma-ray observations of Cygnus X-1 above 100 MeV in the hard and soft states

We present the results of multi-year gamma-ray observations by the AGILE satellite of the black hole binary system Cygnus X-1. In a previous investigation we focused on gamma-ray observations of Cygnus X-1 in the hard state during the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Sabatini , M. Tavani , P. Coppi , G. Pooley , M. Del Santo , R. Campana , A. Chen , Y. Evangelista , G. Piano , A. Bulgarelli , P. W. Cattaneo , S. Colafrancesco , E. Del Monte , A. Giuliani , M. Giusti , F. Longo , A. Morselli , A. Pellizzoni , M. Pilia , E. Striani , M. Trifoglio , S. Vercellone

The AGILE monitoring of Cygnus X-3: transient gamma-ray emission and spectral constraints

We present the AGILE-GRID monitoring of Cygnus X-3, during the period between November 2007 and July 2009. We report here the whole AGILE-GRID monitoring of Cygnus X-3 in the AGILE "pointing" mode data-taking, to confirm that the gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-08 G. Piano , M. Tavani , V. Vittorini , A. Trois , A. Giuliani , A. Bulgarelli , Y. Evangelista , P. Coppi , E. Del Monte , S. Sabatini , E. Striani , I. Donnarumma , D. Hannikainen , K. I. I. Koljonen , M. McCollough , G. Pooley , S. Trushkin , R. Zanin , G. Barbiellini , M. Cardillo , P. W. Cattaneo , A. W. Chen , S. Colafrancesco , M. Feroci , F. Fuschino , M. Giusti , F. Longo , A. Morselli , A. Pellizzoni , C. Pittori , G. Pucella , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , P. Soffitta , M. Trifoglio , S. Vercellone , F. Verrecchia

High energy variability of 3C 273 during the AGILE multiwavelength campaign of December 2007 - January 2008

We report the results of a 3-weeks multi-wavelength campaign on the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 273 carried out with the AGILE gamma-ray mission, covering the 30 MeV -50 GeV and 18-60 keV, the REM observatory (covering the near-IR and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 L. Pacciani , I. Donnarumma , V. Vittorini , F. D'Ammando , M. T. Fiocchi , D. Impiombato , G. Stratta , F. Verrecchia , A. Bulgarelli , A. W. Chen , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , G. Pucella , S. Vercellone , M. Tavani , A. Argan , G. Barbiellini , F. Boffelli , P. A. Caraveo , P. W. Cattaneo , V. Cocco , E. Costa , E. Del Monte , G. Di Cocco , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , T. Froysland , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , M. Marisaldi , S. Mereghetti , A. Morselli , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , P. Picozza , M. Prest , M. Rapisarda , P. Soffitta , M. Trifoglio , G. Tosti , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , D. Zanello , L. A. Antonelli , S. Colafrancesco , S. Cutini , D. Gasparrini , P. Giommi , C. Pittori , L. Salotti

Galactic Sources Science With Agile: The Case Of The Carina Region

During its first 2 years of operation, the gamma-ray AGILE satellite accumulated an extensive dataset for the Galactic plane. The data have been monitored for transient sources and several gamma-ray sources were detected. Their variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-03 S. Sabatini , M. Tavani , E. Pian , A. Bulgarelli , P. Caraveo , R. Viotti , M. F. Corcoran , A. Giuliani , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , S. Vercellone , S. Mereghetti , A. Argan , G. Barbiellini , F. Boffelli , P. W. Cattaneo , A. W. Chen , V. Cocco , F. D'Ammando , E. Costa , G. De Paris , E. Del Monte , G. Di Cocco , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , A. Ferrari , M. Feroci , M. Fiorini , T. Froysland , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , F. Longo , M. Marisaldi , M. Mastropietro , E. Morelli , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , G. Piano , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , G. Porrovecchio , G. Pucella , M. Prest , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , A. Rubini , P. Soffitta , M. Trifoglio , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , V. Vittorini , A. Zambra , D. Zanello , P. Santolamazza , P. Giommi , S. Colafrancesco , L. A. Antonelli , L. Salotti

The Advanced Gamma-ray Imaging System (AGIS): Simulation Studies

The Advanced Gamma-ray Imaging System (AGIS) is a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory being planned in the U.S. The anticipated sensitivity of AGIS is about one order of magnitude better than the sensitivity of current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 G. Maier

Alice: The Rosetta Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph

We describe the design, performance and scientific objectives of the NASA-funded ALICE instrument aboard the ESA Rosetta asteroid flyby/comet rendezvous mission. ALICE is a lightweight, low-power, and low-cost imaging spectrograph optimized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Stern , D. C. Slater , J. Scherrer , J. Stone , M. Versteeg , M. F. A'Hearn , J. L. Bertaux , P. D. Feldman , M. C. Festou , J. Wm. Parker , O. H. W. Siegmund