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20082012
most citedAn extremely primitive halo star

341 citations · 490 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.GA2012★ 341 cited

An extremely primitive halo star

E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, P. François +11

The early Universe had a chemical composition consisting of hydrogen, helium and traces of lithium1, almost all other elements were created in stars and supernovae. The mass fracti…

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

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…

physics.ao-ph2010★ 45 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 18 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2010

The extraordinary gamma-ray flare of the blazar 3C 454.3

E. Striani, S. Vercellone, M. Tavani +56

We present the gamma-ray data of the extraordinary flaring activity above 100 MeV from the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 454.3 detected by AGILE during the month of December 2009.…