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19992013
most citedThe AGILE Mission

381 citations · 773 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.HE2013★ 17 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 207 cited

Discovery of extreme particle acceleration in the microquasar Cygnus X-3

M. Tavani, A. Bulgarelli, G. Piano +67

The study of relativistic particle acceleration is a major topic of high-energy astrophysics. It is well known that massive black holes in active galaxies can release a substantial…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 13 cited

Monitoring the hard X-ray sky with SuperAGILE

M. Feroci, E. Costa, E. Del Monte +77

SuperAGILE is the hard X-ray monitor of the AGILE gamma ray mission, in orbit since 23 April 2007. It is an imaging experiment based on a set of four independent silicon str…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 120 cited

First AGILE Catalog of High Confidence Gamma-Ray Sources

C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, A. W. Chen +80

We present the first catalog of high-confidence gamma-ray sources detected by the AGILE satellite during observations performed from July 9, 2007 to June 30, 2008. Catalogued sourc…

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★ 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…

astro-ph2007

Science with the new generation high energy gamma- ray experiments

M. Alvarez, D. D'Armiento, G. Agnetta +197

This Conference is the fifth of a series of Workshops on High Energy Gamma- ray Experiments, following the Conferences held in Perugia 2003, Bari 2004, Cividale del Friuli 2005, El…

astro-ph2001★ 8 cited

The VLT-VIRMOS Mask Manufacturing Unit

G. Conti, E. Mattaini, L. Chiappetti +14

The VIRMOS Consortium has the task to design and manufacture two spectrographs for ESO VLT, VIMOS (Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph) and NIRMOS (Near Infrared Multi-Object Spectro…

astro-ph1999

The VIRMOS mask manufacturing tools: (b) Mask manufacturing and handling

G. Conti, L. Chiappetti, E. Mattaini +4

We describe the VIRMOS Mask Manufacturing Unit (MMU) configuration, composed of two units:the Mask Manufacturing Machine (with its Control Unit) and the Mask Handling Unit (inclusi…