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Simulation of the AGILE gamma-ray imaging detector performance: Part II

In this paper (Paper II) we complete our discussion on the results of a comprehensive GEANT simulation of the scientific performance of the AGILE Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector (GRID), operating in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy range in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Veronica Cocco , Francesco Longo , Marco Tavani

On the Angular Resolution of the AGILE gamma-ray imaging detector

We present a study of the Angular Resolution of the AGILE gamma-ray imaging detector (GRID) that is operational in space since April 2007. The AGILE instrument is made of an array of 12 planes each equipped with a Tungsten converter and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 S. Sabatini , I. Donnarumma , M. Tavani , A. Trois , A. Bulgarelli , A. Argan , G. Barbiellini , P. W. Cattaneo , A. Chen , E. Del Monte , V. Fioretti , F. Gianotti , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , F. Lucarelli , A. Morselli , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , P. Caraveo

Calibration of AGILE-GRID with on-ground data and Monte Carlo simulations

AGILE is a mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) Scientific Program dedicated to gamma-ray astrophysics, operating in a low Earth orbit since April 23, 2007. It is designed to be a very light and compact instrument, capable of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 P. W. Cattaneo , A. Rappoldi , A. Argan , G. Barbiellini , F. Boffelli , A. Bulgarelli , B. Buonomo , M. Cardillo , A. W. Chen , V. Cocco , S. Colafrancesco , F. D'Ammando , I. Donnarumma , A. Ferrari , V. Fioretti , L. Foggetta , T. Froysland , F. Fuschino , M. Galli , F. Gianotti , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , F. Lucarelli , M. Marisaldi , G. Mazzitelli , A. Morselli , F. Paoletti , N. Parmigiani , A. Pellizzoni , G. Piano , M. Pilia , C. Pittori , M. Prest , G. Pucella , L. Quintieri , S. Sabatini , M. Tavani , M. Trifoglio , A. Trois , P. Valente , E. Vallazza , S. Vercellone , F. Verrecchia , A. Zambra

The Agile Alert System For Gamma-Ray Transients

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-16 A. Bulgarelli , M. Trifoglio , F. Gianotti , M. Tavani , N. Parmiggiani , V. Fioretti , A. W. Chen , S. Vercellone , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , F. Lucarelli , P. Santolamazza , G. Fanari , P. Giommi , D. Beneventano , A. Argan , A. Trois , E. Scalise , F. Longo , A. Pellizzoni , G. Pucella , S. Colafrancesco , V. Conforti , P. Tempesta , M. Cerone , P. Sabatini , G. Annoni , G. Valentini , L. Salotti

The AGILE gamma-ray detector

The gamma-ray detector AGILE, operating in the energy range from 30 MeV to 50 GeV, is composed by a tracking part, a light calorimeter and an anticoincidence system. Here we describe the detector and its capabilities to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Morselli , A. Perrino , P. Picozza , S. Severoni , P. Caraveo , S. Mereghetti , M. Tavani , G. Barbiellini , A. Vacchi

On-ground calibrations of the GRID-02 gamma-ray detector

The Gamma-Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID) are a space project to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky in the multi-messenger astronomy era using multiple detectors on-board CubeSats. The second GRID detector, GRID-02, was launched in 2020.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Huaizhong Gao , Dongxin Yang , Jiaxing Wen , Xutao Zheng , Ming Zeng , Jirong Cang , Weihe Zeng , Xiaofan Pan , Qimin Zhou , Yihui Liu , Hua Feng , Binbin Zhang , Zhi Zeng , Yang Tian , GRID Collaboration

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: a Gamma-Ray Mission for a Light Imaging Detector

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 M. Tavani , G. Barbiellini , P. Caraveo , S. Di Pippo , S. Mereghetti , A , Morselli , A. Pellizzoni , A. Perrino , P. Picozza , P. Schiavon , S. Severoni , F. Tavecchio , A. Vacchi , S. Vercellone

Monte Carlo Simulation of Angular Response of GRID Detectors for GRID Mission

The Gamma-Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID) are a space science mission that employs compact gamma-ray detectors mounted on NanoSats in low Earth orbit (LEO) to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky. Owing to the unpredictability of the time…

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GRID: a Student Project to Monitor the Transient Gamma-Ray Sky in the Multi-Messenger Astronomy Era

The Gamma-Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID) is a space mission concept dedicated to monitoring the transient gamma-ray sky in the energy range from 10 keV to 2 MeV using scintillation detectors onboard CubeSats in low Earth orbits. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-03 Jiaxing Wen , Xiangyun Long , Xutao Zheng , Yu An , Zhengyang Cai , Jirong Cang , Yuepeng Che , Changyu Chen , Liangjun Chen , Qianjun Chen , Ziyun Chen , Yingjie Cheng , Litao Deng , Wei Deng , Wenqing Ding , Hangci Du , Lian Duan , Quan Gan , Tai Gao , Zhiying Gao , Wenbin Han , Yiying Han , Xinbo He , Xinhao He , Long Hou , Fan Hu , Junling Hu , Bo Huang , Dongyang Huang , Xuefeng Huang , Shihai Jia , Yuchen Jiang , Yifei Jin , Ke Li , Siyao Li , Yurong Li , Jianwei Liang , Yuanyuan Liang , Wei Lin , Chang Liu , Gang Liu , Mengyuan Liu , Rui Liu , Tianyu Liu , Wanqiang Liu , Di'an Lu , Peiyibin Lu , Zhiyong Lu , Xiyu Luo , Sizheng Ma , Yuanhang Ma , Xiaoqing Mao , Yanshan Mo , Qiyuan Nie , Shuiyin Qu , Xiaolong Shan , Gengyuan Shi , Weiming Song , Zhigang Sun , Xuelin Tan , Songsong Tang , Mingrui Tao , Boqin Wang , Yue Wang , Zhiang Wang , Qiaoya Wu , Xuanyi Wu , Yuehan Xia , Hengyuan Xiao , Wenjin Xie , Dacheng Xu , Rui Xu , Weili Xu , Longbiao Yan , Shengyu Yan , Dongxin Yang , Hang Yang , Haoguang Yang , Yi-Si Yang , Yifan Yang , Lei Yao , Huan Yu , Yangyi Yu , Aiqiang Zhang , Bingtao Zhang , Lixuan Zhang , Maoxing Zhang , Shen Zhang , Tianliang Zhang , Yuchong Zhang , Qianru Zhao , Ruining Zhao , Shiyu Zheng , Xiaolong Zhou , Runyu Zhu , Yu Zou , Peng An , Yifu Cai , Hongbing Chen , Zigao Dai , Yizhong Fan , Changqing Feng , Hua Feng , He Gao , Liang Huang , Mingming Kang , Lixin Li , Zhuo Li , Enwei Liang , Lin Lin , Qianqian Lin , Congzhan Liu , Hongbang Liu , Xuewen Liu , Yinong Liu , Xiang Lu , Shude Mao , Rongfeng Shen , Jing Shu , Meng Su , Hui Sun , Pak-Hin Tam , Chi-Pui Tang , Yang Tian , Fayin Wang , Jianjun Wang , Wei Wang , Zhonghai Wang , Jianfeng Wu , Xuefeng Wu , Shaolin Xiong , Can Xu , Jiandong Yu , Wenfei Yu , Yunwei Yu , Ming Zeng , Zhi Zeng , Bin-Bin Zhang , Bing Zhang , Zongqing Zhao , Rong Zhou , Zonghong Zhu

Monitoring the hard X-ray sky with SuperAGILE

SuperAGILE is the hard X-ray monitor of the AGILE gamma ray mission, in orbit since 23$^{rd}$ April 2007. It is an imaging experiment based on a set of four independent silicon strip detectors, equipped with one-dimensional coded masks,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 M. Feroci , E. Costa , E. Del Monte , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , L. Pacciani , M. Rapisarda , P. Soffitta , G. Di Persio , M. Frutti , M. Mastropietro , E. Morelli , G. Porrovecchio , A. Rubini , A. Antonelli , A. Argan , G. Barbiellini , F. Boffelli , A. Bulgarelli , P. Caraveo , P. W. Cattaneo , A. W. Chen , V. Cocco , S. Colafrancesco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , G. De Paris , G. Di Cocco , G. Fanari , A. Ferrari , M. Fiorini , F. Fornari , F. Fuschino , T. Froysland , M. Galli , D. Gasparrini , F. Gianotti , P. Giommi , A. Giuliani , C. Labanti , F. Liello , P. Lipari , F. Longo , E. Mattaini , M. Marisaldi , A. Mauri , F. Mauri , S. Mereghetti , E. Moretti , A. Morselli , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , G. Piano , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , C. Pittori , C. Pontoni , B. Preger , M. Prest , R. Primavera , G. Pucella , A. Rappoldi , E. Rossi , S. Sabatini , P. Santolamazza , M. Tavani , S. Stellato , F. Tamburelli , A. Traci , M. Trifoglio , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , S. Vercellone , F. Verrecchia , V. Vittorini , A. Zambra , D. Zanello , 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

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

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

The observation of Gamma Ray Bursts and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes with AGILE

Since its early phases of operation, the AGILE mission is successfully observing Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the hard X-ray band with the SuperAGILE imager and in the MeV range with the Mini-Calorimeter. Up to now, three firm GRB detections…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Del Monte , G. Barbiellini , F. Fuschino , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , M. Marisaldi , S. Mereghetti , E. Moretti , M. Trifoglio , G. Vianello , E. Costa , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , M. Galli , I. Lapshov , F. Lazzarotto , P. Lipari , L. Pacciani , M. Rapisarda , P. Soffitta , M. Tavani , S. Vercellone , S. Cutini , F. Boffelli , A. Bulgarelli , P. Caraveo , P. W. Cattaneo , A. Chen , G. Di Cocco , F. Gianotti , C. Labanti , A. Morselli , A. Pellizzoni , F. Perotti , G. Piano , P. Picozza , M. Pilia , M. Prest , G. Pucella , A. Rappoldi , S. Sabatini , E. Striani , A. Trois , E. Vallazza , V. Vittorini , L. A. Antonelli , C. Pittori , B. Preger , P. Santolamazza , F. Verrecchia , P. Giommi , L. Salotti

A Deep Learning Method for AGILE-GRID GRB Detection

The follow-up of external science alerts received from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) and Gravitational Waves (GW) detectors is one of the AGILE Team's current major activities. The AGILE team developed an automated real-time analysis pipeline to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-23 N. Parmiggiani , A. Bulgarelli , V. Fioretti , A. Di Piano , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , F. Verrecchia , M. Tavani , D. Beneventano , A. Macaluso

A variability study of the AGILE first catalog of \gamma-ray sources on 2.3 years of AGILE pointed observations

AGILE pointed observations performed from July 9, 2007 to October 30, 2009 cover a very large time interval, with a \gamma-ray dataset useful to perform studies of medium to high brightness galactic sources in the 30 MeV -- 50 GeV energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Verrecchia , C. Pittori , A. Bulgarelli , A. W. Chen , M. Tavani , F. Lucarelli , P. Giommi

The design and performance of GRD onboard the GECAM satellite

Background: Each GECAM satellite payload contains 25 gamma-ray detectors (GRDs), which can detect gamma-rays and particles and can roughly localize the Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). GRD was designed using lanthanum bromide (LaBr3) crystal as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-10 Z. H. An , X. L. Sun , D. L. Zhang , S. Yang , X. Q. Li , X. Y. Wen , K. Gong , X. H. Liang , X. J. Liu , Y. Q. Liu , Y. G. Li , S. L. Xiong , Y. B. Xu , Fan Zhang , X. Y. Zhao , C. Cai , Z. Chang , G. Chen , C. Chen , Y. Y. Du , P. Y. Feng , M. Gao , R. Gao , D. Y. Guo , J. J. He , D. J. Hou , C. Y. Li , G. Li , L. Li , X. F. Li , M. S. Li , F. J. Lu , H. Lu , B. Meng , W. X. Peng , F. Shi , H. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. S. Wang , H. Z. Wang , X. Wen , S. Xiao , Y. P. Xu , J. W. Yang , Q. B. Yi , S. N. Zhang , C. Y. Zhang , C. M. Zhang , Fei Zhang , Y. Zhao , X. Zhou

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

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