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The AGILE space mission: an Italian success story and its legacy for future space astronomy
Carlotta Pittori, Marco Tavani, Andrea Argan +10
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 techni…
AGILE gamma-ray detection of the exceptional GRB 221009A
M. Tavani, G. Piano, A. Bulgarelli +47
Gamma-ray emission in the MeV-GeV range from explosive cosmic events is of invaluable relevance to understanding physical processes related to the formation of neutron stars and bl…
An X-Ray Burst from a Magnetar Enlightening the Mechanism of Fast Radio Bursts
M. Tavani, C. Casentini, A. Ursi +60
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short (millisecond) radio pulses originating from enigmatic sources at extragalactic distances so far lacking a detection in other energy bands. Magnet…
Gamma-Ray and X-Ray Observations of the Periodic-Repeater FRB 180916 During Active Phases
M. Tavani, F. Verrecchia, C. Casentini +33
FRB 180916 is a most intriguing source at 150 Mpc distance capable of producing repeating fast radio bursts with a periodic 16.35 day temporal pattern. We report on the X-ray and $…
AGILE Observations of Two Repeating Fast Radio Bursts with Small Intrinsic Dispersion Measures
C. Casentini, F. Verrecchia, M. Tavani +30
We focus on two repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) recently detected by the CHIME/FRB experiment in 2018--2019 (Source 1: 180916.J0158+65, and Source 2: 181030.J1054+73). These sou…
All-Sky-ASTROGAM: The MeV Gamma-Ray Companion to Multimessenger Astronomy
V. Tatischeff, A. De Angelis, M. Tavani +33
All-Sky-ASTROGAM is a gamma-ray observatory operating in a broad energy range, 100 keV to a few hundred MeV, recently proposed as the "Fast" (F) mission of the European Space Agenc…
The Second AGILE Catalog of Gamma-Ray Sources
A. Bulgarelli, V. Fioretti, N. Parmiggiani +25
Aims. We present the second AGILE-GRID Catalog (2AGL) of γ-ray sources in the 100 MeV-10 GeV energy range. Methods. With respect to previous AGILE-GRID catalogs, the current 2AGL C…
AGILE detection of gamma-ray sources coincident with cosmic neutrino events
F. Lucarelli, M. Tavani, G. Piano +34
The origin of cosmic neutrinos is still largely unknown. Using data obtained by the gamma-ray imager on board of the AGILE satellite, we systematically searched for transient gamma…
The e-ASTROGAM gamma-ray space observatory for the multimessenger astronomy of the 2030s
V. Tatischeff, A. De Angelis, M. Tavani +74
e-ASTROGAM is a concept for a breakthrough observatory space mission carrying a gamma-ray telescope dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range fr…
The Blazar PG 1553+113 as a Binary System of Supermassive Black Holes
Marco Tavani, Alfonso Cavaliere, Pere Munar-Adrover +1
The BL Lac PG 1553+113 has been continuously monitored in gamma rays with Fermi-LAT for over 9 years. Its updated light curve now includes 5 iterations of a main pattern comprising…
AGILE Observations of the Gravitational-wave Source GW170817: Constraining Gamma-Ray Emission from a NS-NS Coalescence
F. Verrecchia, M. Tavani, I. Donnarumma +39
The LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected, on 2017 August 17, an exceptional gravitational-wave (GW) event temporally consistent within with the GRB 1708117A…
Science with e-ASTROGAM (A space mission for MeV-GeV gamma-ray astrophysics)
A. De Angelis, V. Tatischeff, I. A. Grenier +248
e-ASTROGAM (enhanced ASTROGAM) is a breakthrough Observatory space mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an anticoincidence system, dedicated t…
AGILE Observations of the Gravitational Wave Source GW170104
F. Verrecchia, M. Tavani, A. Ursi +36
The LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected on 2017 January 4, a significant gravitational-wave (GW) event (now named GW170104). We report in this Letter the main results obtained…
The e-ASTROGAM mission (exploring the extreme Universe with gamma rays in the MeV-GeV range)
Alessandro De Angelis, Vincent Tatischeff, Marco Tavani +71
e-ASTROGAM (`enhanced ASTROGAM') is a breakthrough Observatory mission dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV. The miss…
Contributions of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2016)
The CTA Consortium, :, A. Abchiche +1387
List of contributions from the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium presented at the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2016), July 11-15,…
AGILE Observations of the Gravitational Wave Event GW150914
M. Tavani, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia +35
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…
CTA Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015)
The CTA Consortium, :, A. Abchiche +1305
List of contributions from the CTA Consortium presented at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 30 July - 6 August 2015, The Hague, The Netherlands.
On the Angular Resolution of the AGILE gamma-ray imaging detector
S. Sabatini, I. Donnarumma, M. Tavani +16
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…
An updated list of AGILE bright gamma-ray sources and their variability in pointing mode
F. Verrecchia, C. Pittori, A. W. Chen +76
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), obt…
CTA contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013)
The CTA Consortium, :, O. Abril +1102
Compilation of CTA contributions to the proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), which took place in 2-9 July, 2013, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
AGILE Mini-Calorimeter gamma-ray burst catalog
M. Galli, M. Marisaldi, F. Fuschino +23
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 ob…
Variable gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula: short flares and long "waves"
E. Striani, M. Tavani, V. Vittorini +22
Gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula has been recently shown to be unsteady. In this paper, we study the flux and spectral variability of the Crab above 100 MeV on different tim…
The characterization of the distant blazar GB6 J1239+0443 from flaring and low activity periods
L. Pacciani, I. Donnarumma, K. D. Denney +64
In 2008 AGILE and Fermi detected gamma-ray flaring activity from the unidentified EGRET source 3EG J1236+0457, recently associated with a flat spectrum radio quasar GB6 J1239+0443…
Galactic Sources Science With Agile: The Case Of The Carina Region
S. Sabatini, M. Tavani, E. Pian +63
During its first 2 years of operation, the gamma-ray AGILE satellite accumulated an extensive dataset for the Galactic plane. The data have been monitored for transient sources and…