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20082023
most citedThe June 2008 flare of Markarian 421 from optical to TeV energies

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astro-ph.HE2023

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…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 5 cited

Two active states of the narrow-line gamma-ray-loud AGN GB 1310+487

K. V. Sokolovsky, F. K. Schinzel, Y. T. Tanaka +49

Previously unremarkable, the extragalactic radio source GB 1310+487 showed a gamma-ray flare on 2009 November 18, reaching a daily flux of ~10^-6 photons/cm^2/s at energies E>100 M…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 91 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 58 cited

Magic constraints on Gamma-ray emission from Cygnus X-3

J. Aleksić, L. A. Antonelli, P. Antoranz +156

Cygnus X-3 is a microquasar consisting of an accreting compact object orbiting around a Wolf-Rayet star. It has been detected at radio frequencies and up to high-energy gamma rays…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 1 cited

The June 2008 flare of Markarian 421 from optical to TeV energies

R. M. Wagner, I. Donnarumma, J. Grube +6

We present optical to very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations of Mrk 421 between 2008 May 24 and June 23. A high-energy (HE) gamma-ray signal was detected by AGILE-GRID durin…

astro-ph2008★ 112 cited

The June 2008 flare of Markarian 421 from optical to TeV energies

The Agile Collaboration, Webt Collaboration, Magic Collaboration +2

We present optical, X-ray, high energy ( GeV) and very high energy ( GeV; VHE) observations of the high-frequency peaked blazar Mrk 421 taken betwee…

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…