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SuperAGILE is the X-ray stage of the AGILE gamma-ray mission. It is devoted to monitor X-ray (10-40 keV) sources with a sensitivity better than 10 mCrabs in 50 ks and to detect X-ray transients in a field of view of 1.8 sr, well matched to…

AGILE is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) space mission launched in 2007 to study X-ray and gamma-ray phenomena in the energy range from $\sim$20 keV to $\sim$10 GeV. The AGILE AntiCoincidence System (ACS) detects hard-X photons in the 50 -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-03 N. Parmiggiani , A. Bulgarelli , A. Macaluso , A. Ursi , L. Castaldini , A. Di Piano , R. Falco , V. Fioretti , G. Panebianco , C. Pittori , M. Tavani

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…

Since its launch in April 2007, the AGILE satellite detected with its Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector (GRID) several blazars at high significance: 3C 279, 3C 454.3, PKS 1510-089, S5 0716+714, 3C 273, W Comae, Mrk 421 and PKS 0537-441. Moreover,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 F. D'Ammando , S. Vercellone , I. Donnarumma , A. Bulgarelli , A. W. Chen , A. Giuliani , F. Longo , L. Pacciani , G. Pucella , M. Tavani , V. Vittorini

AGILE is a space mission launched in 2007 devoted to high-energy astrophysics. The AGILE Team is involved in the multi-messenger campaigns to send and receive science alerts about transient events in the shortest time possible. For this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-14 Andrea Bulgarelli , Nicolò Parmiggiani , Valentina Fioretti , Leonardo Baroncelli , Antonio Addis , Ambra Di Piano , Carlotta Pittori , Marco Tavani

The AGILE satellite, in orbit since 2007, localized up to October 2009 about 1 Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) per month with the hard X-ray imager SuperAGILE (18 - 60 keV) (with a rate reduced by a factor 2-3 in spinning mode) and is detecting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Longo , G. Barbiellini , E. Del Monte , M. Marisaldi , F. Fuschino , A. Giuliani

The AGILE $\gamma$-ray telescope (Tavani et al. 1998) will have a relatively uniform sensitivity over a very wide field of view. This allows to simultaneously monitor several AGN's and to react quickly with multiwavelength observations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mereghetti

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…

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

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

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…

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…

The Mini-Calorimeter of the AGILE satellite can observe the high-energy part of gamma-ray bursts with good timing capability. We present the data of the 85 hard gamma-ray bursts observed by the Mini-Calorimeter since the launch (April 2007)…

During the first 3 years of operation the Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector onboard the AGILE satellite detected several blazars in a high gamma-ray activity: 3C 279, 3C 454.3, PKS 1510-089, S5 0716+714, 3C 273, W Comae, Mrk 421, PKS 0537-441 and…

Thanks to the wide field of view of its gamma-ray imager, the AGILE satellite obtained a long term monitoring of the brightest blazars in the sky and during the first 3 years of operation detected several blazars in a high gamma-ray state:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Filippo D'Ammando

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