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20072018
most citedThe AGILE Mission

381 citations · 1.7k across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

Calibration of AGILE-GRID with on-ground data and Monte Carlo simulations

P. W. Cattaneo, A. Rappoldi, A. Argan +41

AGILE is a mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) Scientific Program dedicated to gamma-ray astrophysics, operating in a low Earth orbit since April 23, 2007. It is designed to…

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.HE2012★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2011

The flaring blazars of the first 1.5 years of the AGILE mission

L. Pacciani, A. Bulgarelli, A. W. Chen +60

We report the AGILE gamma-ray observations and the results of the multiwavelength campaigns on seven flaring blazars detected by the mission: During two multiwavelength campaigns,…

astro-ph.IM2011

First results about on-ground calibration of the Silicon Tracker for the AGILE satellite

AGILE Collaboration, P. W. Cattaneo, A. Argan +65

The AGILE scientific instrument has been calibrated with a tagged -ray beam at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) of the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF). The goal of the c…

physics.ins-det2011★ 8 cited

Characterization of a tagged -ray beam line at the DANE Beam Test Facility

P. W. Cattaneo, A. Argan, F. Boffelli +64

At the core of the AGILE scientific instrument, designed to operate on a satellite, there is the Gamma Ray Imaging Detector (GRID) consisting of a Silicon Tracker (ST), a Cesium Io…