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astro-ph2008★ 112 cited

The June 2008 flare of Markarian 421 from optical to TeV energies

The Agile Collaboration, Webt Collaboration, Magic Collaboration +2

We present optical, X-ray, high energy ( GeV) and very high energy ( GeV; VHE) observations of the high-frequency peaked blazar Mrk 421 taken betwee…

astro-ph2008★ 10 cited

A versatile facility for the calibration of X-ray polarimeters with polarized and unpolarized controlled beams

Fabio Muleri, Paolo Soffitta, Ronaldo Bellazzini +8

We devised and built a versatile facility for the calibration of the next generation X-ray polarimeters with unpolarized and polarized radiation. The former is produced at 5.9 keV…

astro-ph2008★ 27 cited

Gamma-ray burst detection with the AGILE mini-calorimeter

M. Marisaldi, C. Labanti, F. Fuschino +70

The Mini-Calorimeter (MCAL) instrument on-board the AGILE satellite is a non-imaging gamma-ray scintillation detector sensitive in the 300keV-100MeV energy range with a total on-ax…

astro-ph2008★ 37 cited

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

A. W. Chen, F. D'Ammando, M. Villata +65

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 act…

astro-ph2008

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

F. D'Ammando, A. W. Chen, M. Villata +10

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 opt…

astro-ph2008★ 381 cited

The AGILE Mission

M. Tavani

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 i…