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astro-ph2008★ 19 cited

AGILE observation of a gamma-ray flare from the blazar 3C 279

A. Giuliani, F. D'Ammando, S. Vercellone +56

Context. We report the detection by the AGILE satellite of an intense gamma-ray flare from the gamma-ray source 3EG J1255-0549, associated to the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar 3C 279,…

astro-ph2008★ 48 cited

High-Resolution Timing Observations of Spin-Powered Pulsars with the AGILE Gamma-Ray Telescope

A. Pellizzoni, M. Pilia, A. Possenti +67

AGILE is a small gamma-ray astronomy satellite mission of the Italian Space Agency dedicated to high-energy astrophysics launched in 2007 April. Its 1 microsecond absolute time tag…

astro-ph2008★ 77 cited

Multiwavelength observations of 3C 454.3. I. The AGILE 2007 November campaign on the "Crazy Diamond"

S. Vercellone, A. W. Chen, V. Vittorini +68

[Abridged] We report on a multiwavelength observation of the blazar 3C 454.3 (which we dubbed "crazy diamond") carried out on November 2007 by means of the astrophysical satellites…

astro-ph2008★ 66 cited

AGILE detection of delayed gamma-ray emission from GRB 080514B

A. Giuliani, S. Mereghetti, F. Fornari +55

GRB 080514B is the first gamma ray burst (GRB), since the time of EGRET, for which individual photons of energy above several tens of MeV have been detected with a pair-conversion…

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…