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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

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…

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…

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 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 (Astrorivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero) is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) mission launched on April 23rd, 2007. The AGILE-GRID instrument onboard of the AGILE satellite is devoted to gamma-ray astrophysics in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Longo , A. Rappoldi , F. Lucarelli , C. Pittori , F. Verrecchia , A. Bulgarelli , M. Tavani

SuperAGILE is a coded mask experiment based on silicon microstrip detectors. It operates in the 15-45 keV nominal energy range, providing crossed one-dimensional images of the X-ray sky with an on-axis angular resolution of 6 arcmin, over a…

AGILE is a small space mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) devoted to gamma-ray and hard-X astrophysics, successfully launched on April 23 2007. The AGILE Payload is composed of three instruments: a gamma-ray imager based on a…

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 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…

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

SuperAGILE (SA) is a detection system on board of the AGILE satellite (Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero), a Gamma-ray astronomy mission approved by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as first project for the Program for Small…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-16 Francesco Lazzarotto , Ettore Del Monte

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 SuperAGILE (SA) instrument is a X-ray detector for As- trophysics measurements, part of the Italian AGILE satellite for X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy launched at 23/04/2007 from India. SuperAGILE is now studying the sky in the 18 - 60…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-30 F. Lazzarotto , E. Costa , E. Del Monte , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , M. Feroci , I. Lapshov , L. Pacciani , P. Soffitta

We report the Astrorivelatore Gamma ad Immagini LEggero (AGILE) observations of solar flares, detected by the on board anticoincidence system in the 80-200 keV energy range, from 2007 May 1st to 2022 August 31st. In more than 15 yr, AGILE…

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…

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