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First AGILE Catalog of High Confidence Gamma-Ray Sources

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-02 C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , A. W. Chen , A. Bulgarelli , A. Pellizzoni , A. Giuliani , S. Vercellone , F. Longo , M. Tavani , P. Giommi , G. Barbiellini , M. Trifoglio , F. Gianotti , A. Argan , A. Antonelli , F. Boffelli , P. Caraveo , P. W. Cattaneo , V. Cocco , S. Colafrancesco , T. Contessi , E. Costa , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , E. Del Monte , G. De Paris , G. Di Cocco , G. Di Persio , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , G. Fanari , M. Feroci , A. Ferrari , M. Fiorini , F. Fornari , F. Fuschino , T. Froysland , M. Frutti , M. Galli , D. Gasparrini , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , F. Liello , P. Lipari , E. Mattaini , M. Marisaldi , M. Mastropietro , A. Mauri , F. Mauri , S. Mereghetti , E. Morelli , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , F. Perotti , G. Piano , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , C. Pontoni , G. Porrovecchio , B. Preger , M. Prest , R. Primavera , G. Pucella , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , E. Rossi , A. Rubini , S. Sabatini , P. Santolamazza , E. Scalise , P. Soffitta , S. Stellato , E. Striani , F. Tamburelli , A. Traci , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , V. Vittorini , A. Zambra , D. Zanello , L. Salotti

AGILE detection of intense gamma-ray emission from the blazar PKS 1510-089

We report the detection by the AGILE (Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero) satellite of an intense gamma-ray flare from the source AGL J1511-0909, associated with the powerful quasar PKS 1510-089, during ten days of observations from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Pucella , V. Vittorini , F. D'Ammando , M. Tavani , C. M. Raiteri , M. Villata , A. Argan , G. Barbiellini , F. Boffelli , A. Bulgarelli , P. Caraveo , P. W. Cattaneo , A. W. Chen , V. Cocco , E. Costa , E. Del Monte , G. De Paris , G. Di Cocco , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , M. Fiorini , T. Froysland , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , A. Giuliani , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , F. Longo , M. Marisaldi , S. Mereghetti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , P. Picozza , M. Prest , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , P. Soffitta , M. Trifoglio , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , S. Vercellone , A. Zambra , D. Zanello , L. A. Antonelli , S. Colafrancesco , S. Cutini , D. Gasparrini , P. Giommi , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , L. Salotti , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , D. Carosati , V. M. Larionov , R. Ligustri

High-Resolution Timing Observations of Spin-Powered Pulsars with the AGILE Gamma-Ray Telescope

AGILE is a small gamma-ray astronomy satellite mission of the Italian Space Agency dedicated to high-energy astrophysics launched in 2007 April. Its 1 microsecond absolute time tagging capability coupled with a good sensitivity in the 30…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Pellizzoni , M. Pilia , A. Possenti , F. Fornari , P. Caraveo , E. Del Monte , S. Mereghetti , M. Tavani , A. Argan , A. Trois , M. Burgay , A. Chen , I. Cognard , E. Costa , N. D'Amico , P. Esposito , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , F. Fuschino , A. Giuliani , J. Halpern , G. Hobbs , A. Hotan , S. Johnston , M. Kramer , F. Longo , R. N. Manchester , M. Marisaldi , J. Palfreyman , P. Weltevrede , G. Barbiellini , F. Boffelli , A. Bulgarelli , P. W. Cattaneo , V. Cocco , F. D'Ammando , G. De Paris , G. Di Cocco , I. Donnarumma , M. Fiorini , T. Froysland , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , A. Harding , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , F. Mauri , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , F. Perotti , P. Picozza , M. Prest , G. Pucella , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , P. Soffitta , M. Trifoglio , E. Vallazza , S. Vercellone , V. Vittorini , A. Zambra , D. Zanello , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , B. Preger , P. Santolamazza , P. Giommi , L. Salotti

AGILE Observations of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes

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

AGILE observation of a gamma-ray flare from the blazar 3C 279

Context. We report the detection by the AGILE satellite of an intense gamma-ray flare from the gamma-ray source 3EG J1255-0549, associated to the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar 3C 279, during the AGILE pointings towards the Virgo Region on 2007…

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

AGILE detection of variable gamma-ray activity from the blazar S5 0716+714 in September-October 2007

We report the gamma-ray activity from the intermediate BL Lac S5 0716+714 during observations acquired by the AGILE satellite in September and October 2007. These detections of activity were contemporaneous with a period of intense optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. W. Chen , F. D'Ammando , M. Villata , C. M. Raiteri , M. Tavani , V. Vittorini , A. Bulgarelli , I. Donnarumma , A. Ferrari , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , L. Pacciani , G. Pucella , S. Vercellone , A. Argan , G. Barbiellini , F. Boffelli , P. Caraveo , D. Carosati , P. W. Cattaneo , V. Cocco , E. Costa , E. Del Monte , G. De Paris , G. Di Cocco , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , M. Fiorini , T. Froysland , M. Frutti , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , O. M. Kurtanidze , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , V. M. Larionov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , M. Marisaldi , M. Mastropietro , S. Mereghetti , E. Morelli , A. Morselli , M. Pasanen , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , P. Picozza , G. Porrovecchio , M. Prest , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , A. Rubini , P. Soffitta , M. Trifoglio , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , A. Zambra , D. Zanello , S. Cutini , D. Gasparrini , C. Pittori , P. Santolamazza , F. Verrecchia , P. Giommi , L. A. Antonelli , S. Colafrancesco , L. Salotti

High-energy gamma-ray activity from V404 Cygni detected by AGILE during the 2015 June outburst

The AGILE satellite detected transient high-energy gamma-ray emission from the X-ray binary V404 Cygni, during the June 2015 outburst observed in radio, optical, X-ray and soft gamma-ray frequencies. The activity was observed by AGILE in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 G. Piano , P. Munar-Adrover , F. Verrecchia , M. Tavani , S. A. Trushkin

An updated list of AGILE bright gamma-ray sources and their variability in pointing mode

We present a variability study of a sample of bright gamma-ray (30 MeV -- 50 GeV) sources. This sample is an extension of the first AGILE catalogue of gamma-ray sources (1AGL), obtained using the complete set of AGILE observations in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-25 F. Verrecchia , C. Pittori , A. W. Chen , A. Bulgarelli , M. Tavani , F. Lucarelli , P. Giommi , S. Vercellone , A. Pellizzoni , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , G. Barbiellini , M. Trifoglio , F. Gianotti , A. Argan , L. A. Antonelli , P. Caraveo , M. Cardillo , P. W. Cattaneo , V. Cocco , S. Colafrancesco , T. Contessi , E. Costa , E. Del Monte , G. De Paris , G. Di Cocco , G. Di Persio , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , G. Fanari , M. Feroci , A. Ferrari , M. Fiorini , F. Fornari , F. Fuschino , T. Froysland , M. Frutti , M. Galli , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , F. Liello , P. Lipari , E. Mattaini , M. Marisaldi , M. Mastropietro , A. Mauri , F. Mauri , S. Mereghetti , E. Morelli , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , F. Perotti , G. Piano , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , C. Pontoni , G. Porrovecchio , M. Prest , R. Primavera , G. Pucella , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , E. Rossi , A. Rubini , S. Sabatini , P. Santolamazza , P. Soffitta , S. Stellato , E. Striani , F. Tamburelli , A. Traci , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , V. Vittorini , D. Zanello , L. Salotti , G. Valentini

AGILE results on relativistic outflows above 100 MeV

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

The AGILE space mission: an Italian success story and its legacy for future space astronomy

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-23 Carlotta Pittori , Marco Tavani , Andrea Argan , Andrea Bulgarelli , Guido Barbiellini , Luca Salotti , Elisabetta Tommasi , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Fabio D'Amico , Giovanno Valentini , Munzer Jahjah , Barbara Negri , Giovanni Annoni

AGILE detection of variable gamma-ray activity from the blazar S5 0716+714 during September-October 2007

We report the gamma-ray activity from the Intermediate BL Lac S5 0716+714 during 2007 September-October observations by the AGILE satellite, coincident with a period of intense optical activity of the source monitored by GASP-WEBT. AGILE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 F. D'Ammando , A. W. Chen , M. Villata , C. M. Raiteri , V. Vittorini , A. Bulgarelli , I. Donnarumma , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , L. Pacciani , G. Pucella , M. Tavani , S. Vercellone

Calibration of AGILE-GRID with In-Flight Data and Monte Carlo Simulations

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-08 Andrew W. Chen , A. Argan , A. Bulgarelli , P. W. Cattaneo , T. Contessi , A. Giuliani , C. Pittori , G. Pucella , M. Tavani , A. Trois , F. Verrecchia , G. Barbiellini , P. Caraveo , S. Colafrancesco , E. Costa , G. De Paris , E. Del Monte , G. Di Cocco , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , A. Ferrari , M. Feroci , V. Fioretti , M. Fiorini , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , P. Giommi , M. Giusti , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , F. Longo , F. Lucarelli , M. Marisaldi , S. Mereghetti , E. Morelli , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , G. Piano , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , M. Prest , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , A. Rubini , S. Sabatini , P. Santolamazza , P. Soffitta , E. Striani , M. Trifoglio , G. Valentini , E. Vallazza , S. Vercellone , V. Vittorini , D. Zanello

Observing peculiar gamma-ray pulsars with AGILE

The AGILE gamma-ray satellite provides large sky exposure levels ($\geq 10^9$ cm$^2$ s per year on the Galactic Plane) with sensitivity peaking at $E\sim$100 MeV where the bulk of pulsar energy output is typically released. Its $\sim$1…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Maura Pilia , Alberto Pellizzoni

AGILE detection of a strong gamma-ray flare from the blazar 3C 454.3

We report the first blazar detection by the AGILE satellite. AGILE detected 3C 454.3 during a period of strongly enhanced optical emission in July 2007. AGILE observed the source with a dedicated repointing during the period 2007 July 24-30…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Vercellone , A. W. Chen , A. Giuliani , A. Bulgarelli , I. Donnarumma , I. Lapshov , M. Tavani , A. Argan , G. Barbiellini , P. Caraveo , V. Cocco , E. Costa , F. D'Ammando , E. Del Monte , G. De Paris , G. Di Cocco , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , M. Fiorini , T. Froysland , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , C. Labanti , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , F. Longo , M. Marisaldi , F. Mauri , S. Mereghetti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , P. Picozza , M. Prest , G. Pucella , M. Rapisarda , P. Soffitta , M. Trifoglio , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , V. Vittorini , A. Zambra , D. Zanello , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , D. Gasparrini , S. Cutini , P. Giommi , L. A. Antonelli , S. Colafrancesco , L. Salotti

Observation of GRBs with AGILE

Since its early phases of operation, the AGILE satellite is observing Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) over an energy range potentially spanning six orders of magnitude. In the hard X-ray band the SuperAGILE imager provides localization of about one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-09 M. Marisaldi , G. Barbiellini , E. Costa , S. Cutini , E. Del Monte , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , A. Giuliani , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , F. Longo , S. Mereghetti , E. Moretti , L. Pacciani , M. Rapisarda , P. Soffitta , M. Tavani , M. Trifoglio , S. Vercellone

AGILE Observations of the Gravitational Wave Event GW150914

We report the results of an extensive search in the AGILE data for a gamma-ray counterpart of the LIGO gravitational wave event GW150914. Currently in spinning mode, AGILE has the potential of covering with its gamma-ray instrument 80 % of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 M. Tavani , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , A. Bulgarelli , A. Giuliani , I. Donnarumma , A. Argan , A. Trois , F. Lucarelli , M. Marisaldi , E. Del Monte , Y. Evangelista , V. Fioretti , A. Zoli , G. Piano , P. Munar-Adrover , L. A. Antonelli , G. Barbiellini , P. Caraveo , P. W. Cattaneo , E. Costa , M. Feroci , A. Ferrari , F. Longo , S. Mereghetti , G. Minervini , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , A. Pellizzoni , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , A. Rappoldi , S. Sabatini , S. Vercellone , V. Vittorini , P. Giommi , S. Colafrancesco , M. Cardillo

The AGILE Mission

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

Detection of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes with the AGILE/MCAL

AGILE is one of the satellites currently detecting terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs). In particular, the AGILE Mini-CALorimeter detected more than 2000 events in 8 years activity, by exploiting a unique sub-millisecond timescale trigger…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 Alessandro Ursi , Martino Marisaldi , Marco Tavani

The flaring blazars of the first 1.5 years of the AGILE mission

We report the AGILE gamma-ray observations and the results of the multiwavelength campaigns on seven flaring blazars detected by the mission: During two multiwavelength campaigns, we observed gamma-ray activity from two Flat Spectrum Radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-20 L. Pacciani , A. Bulgarelli , A. W. Chen , F. D'Ammando , I. Donnarumma , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , G. Pucella , M. Tavani , S. Vercellone , V. Vittorini , A. Argan , G. Barbiellini , F. Boffelli , P. Caraveo , P. W. Cattaneo , V. Cocco , E. Costa , G. De Paris , E. Del Monte , G. Di Cocco , Y. Evangelista , A. Ferrari , M. Feroci , M. Fiorini , T. Froysland , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , C. Labanti , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , M. Marisaldi , M. Mastropietro , S. Mereghetti , E. Morelli , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , G. Piano , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , G. Porrovecchio , M. Prest , M. Rapisarda , A. Rappoldi , A. Rubini , S. Sabatini , P. Soffitta , M. Trifoglio , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , A. Zambra , D. Zanello , L. A. Antonelli , S. Colafrancesco , P. Giommi , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , P. Santolamazza , L. Salotti

AGILE detection of a candidate gamma-ray precursor to the ICECUBE-160731 neutrino event

On July 31st, 2016, the ICECUBE collaboration reported the detection of a high-energy starting event induced by an astrophysical neutrino. We report here about the search for a gamma-ray counterpart of the ICECUBE-160731 event made with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-15 F. Lucarelli , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , I. Donnarumma , M. Tavani , A. Bulgarelli , A. Giuliani , L. A. Antonelli , P. Caraveo , P. W. Cattaneo , S. Colafrancesco , F. Longo , S. Mereghetti , A. Morselli , L. Pacciani , G. Piano , A. Pellizzoni , M. Pilia , A. Rappoldi , A. Trois , S. Vercellone