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In the multi-messenger era, space and ground-based observatories usually develop real-time analysis (RTA) pipelines to rapidly detect transient events and promptly share information with the scientific community to enable follow-up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 N. Parmiggiani , A. Bulgarelli , A. Ursi , V. Fioretti , L. Baroncelli , A. Addis , A. Di Piano , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , F. Lucarelli , M. Tavani , D. Beneventano

In recent years, a new generation of space missions offered great opportunities of discovery in high-energy astrophysics. In this article we focus on the scientific operations of the Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector (GRID) onboard the AGILE space…

The AGILE Science Alert System has been developed to provide prompt processing of science data for detection and alerts on gamma-ray galactic and extra galactic transients, gamma-ray bursts, X-ray bursts and other transients in the hard…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-28 M. Trifoglio , A. Bulgarelli , F. Gianotti , F. Fuschino , M. Marisaldi , M. Tavani , E. Del Monte , Y. Evangelista , F. Lazzarotto , S. Sabatini , F. Longo , E. Moretti , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia

AGILE is an innovative, cost-effective gamma-ray mission proposed to the ASI Program of Small Scientific Missions. It is planned to detect gamma-rays in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy band and operate as an {\bf Observatory} open to the…

AGILE is an Italian Space Agency mission dedicated to the observation of the gamma-ray Universe. The AGILE very innovative instrumentation combines for the first time a gamma-ray imager (sensitive in the energy range 30 MeV - 50 GeV), a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Tavani

AGILE (Astrorivelatore Gamma ad Immagini LEggero) has been a unique and hugely successful mission of Italian Space Agency (ASI), built and operated with the programmatic and technical support of the National Institute for Astrophysics…

The Italian AGILE space mission, with its Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector (GRID) instrument sensitive in the 30 MeV-50 GeV gamma-ray energy band, has been operating since 2007. Agilepy is an open-source Python package to analyse AGILE/GRID data.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 A. Bulgarelli , L. Baroncelli , A. Addis , N. Parmiggiani , A. Aboudan , A. Di Piano , V. Fioretti , M. Tavani , C. Pittori , F. Lucarelli , F. Verrecchia

We present an overview of the main AGILE Data Center activities and architecture. AGILE is a space mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) in joint collaboration with INAF, INFN, CIFS, and with the participation of several Italian space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-28 Carlotta Pittori

We give an overview of the AGILE gamma-ray satellite scientific highlights. AGILE is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) mission devoted to observations in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV gamma-ray energy range, with simultaneous X-ray imaging in the 18-60…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Carlotta Pittori

In the multi-messenger era, astronomical projects share information about transients phenomena issuing science alerts to the Scientific Community through different communications networks. This coordination is mandatory to understand the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 N. Parmiggiani , A. Bulgarelli , D. Beneventano , V. Fioretti , L. Baroncelli , A. Addis , M. Tavani

AGILE (Astro-rivelatore Gamma ad Immagini LEggero) is a Small Scientific Mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) with a Science Program open to the national and international community. Its main goal is to develop and operate a scientific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elisabetta Memola , Paolo Giommi

The AGILE satellite, operating since mid 2007 and primarily devoted to high-energy astrophysics, is one of the only three currently operating space instruments capable of detecting Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs), together with RHESSI…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 M. Marisaldi , F. Fuschino , C. Labanti , A. Bulgarelli , F. Gianotti , M. Trifoglio , M. Tavani , A. Argan , E. Del Monte , F. Longo , G. Barbiellini , A. Giuliani , A. Trois

The AGILE space mission (whose instrument is sensitive in the energy ranges 18-60 keV, and 30 MeV - 50 GeV) has been operating since 2007. Assessing the statistical significance of time variability of gamma-ray sources above 100 MeV is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Bulgarelli , A. W. Chen , M. Tavani , F. Gianotti , M. Trifoglio , T. Contessi

AGILE is a small gamma-ray astronomy satellite, with good spatial resolution, excellent timing capabilities and an unprecedented large field of view (~1/5 of the sky). It will be the next mission dedicated to high energy astrophysics in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Pellizzoni , A. Chen , M. Conti , A. Giuliani , S. Mereghetti , M. Tavani , S. Vercellone

We describe the AGILE gamma-ray astronomy satellite which has recently been selected as the first Small Scientific Mission of the Italian Space Agency. With a launch in 2002, AGILE will provide a unique tool for high-energy astrophysics in…

The AGILE (Advanced enerGetic Ion eLectron tElescope) project focuses on the development of a compact low-cost space-based instrument to measure the intensities of charged particles and ions in space. Using multiple layers of fast silicon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-15 F. Gautier , A. Greeley , S. G. Kanekal , T. Isidori , G. Legras , N. Minafra , A. Novikov , C. Royon , Q. Schiller

AGILE is a space mission launched in 2007 to study X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy. The AGILE team developed real-time analysis pipelines to detect transient phenomena such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and to react to external science alerts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 N. Parmiggiani , A. Bulgarelli , A. Ursi , M. Tavani , A. Macaluso , A. Di Piano , V. Fioretti , L. Baroncelli , A. Addis , C. Pittori

Context: AGILE is a gamma-ray astrophysics mission which has been in orbit since 23 April 2007 and continues to operate reliably. The gamma-ray detector, AGILE-GRID, has observed Galactic and extragalactic sources, many of which were…

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