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Multi-wavelength observations of the lensed quasar PKS 1830211 during the 2019 -ray flare
S. Vercellone, I. Donnarumma, C. Pittori +32
PKS 1830211 is a -ray emitting, high-redshift (z ), lensed flat-spectrum radio quasar. During the period mid-February to mid-April 2019, this source underw…
Prospects for a survey of the Galactic plane with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
CTA Consortium
Approximately one hundred sources of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays are known in the Milky Way. A survey of the entire Galactic Plane in the energy range from a few tens of GeV…
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…
A search for new supernova remnant shells in the Galactic plane with H.E.S.S
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +263
A search for new supernova remnants (SNRs) has been conducted using TeV gamma-ray data from the H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey. As an identification criterion, shell morphologies t…
Search of MeV-GeV counterparts of TeV sources with AGILE in pointing mode
A. Rappoldi, F. Lucarelli, C. Pittori +12
Context. Known TeV sources detected by major Cerenkov telescopes are investigated to identify possible MeV-GeV gamma-ray counterparts. Aims. A systematic study of the known sources…
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…
Discovery of variable VHE gamma-ray emission from the binary system 1FGL J1018.6-5856
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +230
Re-observations with the H.E.S.S. telescope array of the very-high-energy (VHE) source HESS J1018-589 A coincident with the Fermi-LAT -ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 have resulted…
The Agile Alert System For Gamma-Ray Transients
A. Bulgarelli, M. Trifoglio, F. Gianotti +26
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 t…
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…
The Second Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars
LAT collaboration
This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence > 0.1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite. Half…
Gamma-ray observations of Cygnus X-1 above 100 MeV in the hard and soft states
S. Sabatini, M. Tavani, P. Coppi +19
We present the results of multi-year gamma-ray observations by the AGILE satellite of the black hole binary system Cygnus X-1. In a previous investigation we focused on gamma-ray o…
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…
Evaluating the Maximum Likelihood Method for Detecting Short-Term Variability of AGILE gamma-ray Sources
A. Bulgarelli, A. W. Chen, M. Tavani +3
The AGILE space mission (whose instrument is sensitive in the energy ranges 18-60 keV, and 30 MeV - 50 GeV) has been operating since 2007. Assessing the statistical significance of…
A variability study of the AGILE first catalog of γ-ray sources on 2.3 years of AGILE pointed observations
F. Verrecchia, C. Pittori, A. Bulgarelli +4
AGILE pointed observations performed from July 9, 2007 to October 30, 2009 cover a very large time interval, with a γ-ray dataset useful to perform studies of medium to high bright…
A Statistical Approach to Recognizing Source Classes for Unassociated Sources in the First Fermi-LAT Catalog
LAT Collaboration
The Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog (1FGL) provided spatial, spectral, and temporal properties for a large number of gamma-ray sources using a uniform analysis meth…
The brightest gamma-ray flaring blazar in the sky: AGILE and multi-wavelength observations of 3C 454.3 during November 2010
S. Vercellone, E. Striani, V. Vittorini +84
Since 2005, the blazar 3C 454.3 has shown remarkable flaring activity at all frequencies, and during the last four years it has exhibited more than one gamma-ray flare per year, be…
The Crab Nebula super-flare in April 2011: extremely fast particle acceleration and gamma-ray emission
E. Striani, M. Tavani, G. Piano +47
We report on the extremely intense and fast gamma-ray are above 100 MeV detected by AGILE from the Crab Nebula in mid-April 2011. This event is the fourth of a sequence of reported…
Gamma-ray blazars: the view from AGILE
F. D'Ammando, A. Bulgarelli, A. W. Chen +14
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 1510-0…
Gamma-Ray Localization of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes
M. Marisaldi, A. Argan, A. Trois +59
Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs) are very short bursts of high energy photons and electrons originating in Earth's atmosphere. We present here a localization study of TGFs carr…
Study of the gamma-ray source 1AGL J2022+4032 in the Cygnus Region
A. W. Chen, G. Piano, M. Tavani +58
Identification of gamma-ray-emitting Galactic sources is a long-standing problem in astrophysics. One such source, 1AGL J2022+4032, coincident with the interior of the radio shell…
Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of Misaligned AGN
LAT Collaboration
Analysis is presented on 15 months of data taken with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope for 11 non-blazar AGNs, including 7 FRI radio galaxies a…
The December 2009 gamma-ray flare of 3C 454.3: the multifrequency campaign
L. Pacciani, V. Vittorini, M. Tavani +81
During the month of December, 2009 the blazar 3C 454.3 became the brightest gamma-ray source in the sky, reaching a peak flux F ~2000E-8 ph/cm2/s for E > 100 MeV. Starting in Novem…
AGILE detection of GeV gamma-ray emission from the SNR W28
A. Giuliani, M. Tavani, A. Bulgarelli +59
Supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the main sources of Galactic cosmic rays. Molecular clouds associated with SNRs can produce gamma-ray emission through the interaction…
Fermi Large Area Telescope Constraints on the Gamma-ray Opacity of the Universe
The Fermi LAT, the GBM Collaboration, : +1
The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) includes photons with wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared, which are effective at attenuating gamma rays with energy above ~10 GeV dur…