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Design and construction of the Mini-Calorimeter of the AGILE satellite
C. Labanti, M. Marisaldi, F. Fuschino +7
AGILE is a small space mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) devoted to gamma-ray and hard-X astrophysics, successfully launched on April 23 2007. The AGILE Payload is composed…
AGILE detection of intense gamma-ray emission from the blazar PKS 1510-089
G. Pucella, V. Vittorini, F. D'Ammando +59
We report the detection by the AGILE (Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero) satellite of an intense gamma-ray flare from the source AGL J1511-0909, associated with the powerfu…
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…
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…
AGILE detection of variable gamma-ray activity from the blazar S5 0716+714 in September-October 2007
A. W. Chen, F. D'Ammando, M. Villata +65
We report the gamma-ray activity from the intermediate BL Lac S5 0716+714 during observations acquired by the AGILE satellite in September and October 2007. These detections of act…
AGILE detection of variable gamma-ray activity from the blazar S5 0716+714 during September-October 2007
F. D'Ammando, A. W. Chen, M. Villata +10
We report the gamma-ray activity from the Intermediate BL Lac S5 0716+714 during 2007 September-October observations by the AGILE satellite, coincident with a period of intense opt…
Long-term AGILE monitoring of the puzzling gamma-ray source 3EG J1835+5918
A. Bulgarelli, M. Tavani, P. Caraveo +54
We present the AGILE gamma-ray observations of the field containing the puzzling gamma-ray source 3EG J1835+5918. This source is one of the most remarkable unidentified EGRET sourc…
Infrared to X-ray observations of PKS 2155-304 in a low state
L. Foschini, A. Treves, F. Tavecchio +14
AIMS: Our goal is to understand the nature of blazars and the mechanisms for the generation of high-energy gamma-rays, through the investigation of the prototypical blazar PKS 2155…
AGILE detection of a strong gamma-ray flare from the blazar 3C 454.3
S. Vercellone, A. W. Chen, A. Giuliani +50
We report the first blazar detection by the AGILE satellite. AGILE detected 3C 454.3 during a period of strongly enhanced optical emission in July 2007. AGILE observed the source w…
Science with the new generation high energy gamma- ray experiments
M. Alvarez, D. D'Armiento, G. Agnetta +197
This Conference is the fifth of a series of Workshops on High Energy Gamma- ray Experiments, following the Conferences held in Perugia 2003, Bari 2004, Cividale del Friuli 2005, El…
GRB 070724B: the first Gamma Ray Burst localized by SuperAGILE and its Swift X-ray Afterglow
E. Del Monte, M. Feroci, L. Pacciani +51
GRB 070724B is the first Gamma Ray Burst localized by SuperAGILE, the hard X-ray monitor aboard the AGILE satellite. The coordinates of the event were published hours aft…
GAW - An Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope with Large Field of View
G. Cusumano, G. Agnetta, A. Alberdi +47
GAW, acronym for Gamma Air Watch, is a Research and Development experiment in the TeV range, whose main goal is to explore the feasibility of large field of view Imaging Atmospheri…
Swift follow-up of the gigantic TeV outburst of PKS 2155-304 in 2006
L. Foschini, G. Ghisellini, F. Tavecchio +12
At the end of July 2006, the blazar PKS 2155-304 (z=0.116) underwent a strong outburst observed at TeV energies by HESS (up to 17 Crab flux level at E > 200 GeV). The Swift satelli…
X-ray/UV/Optical follow-up of the blazar PKS 2155-304 after the giant TeV flares of July 2006
L. Foschini, G. Ghisellini, F. Tavecchio +12
We present all the publicly available data, from optical/UV wavelengths (UVOT) to X-rays (XRT, BAT), obtained from Swift observations of the blazar PKS 2155-304, performed in respo…
XMM-Newton observations of a sample of gamma-ray loud active galactic nuclei
L. Foschini, G. Ghisellini, C. M. Raiteri +7
(abridged) We performed a homogeneous and systematic analysis of simultaneous X-ray and optical/UV properties of a group of 15 gamma-ray loud AGN, using observations performed with…
Simultaneous X-ray and optical observations of S5 0716+714 after the outburst of March 2004
L. Foschini, G. Tagliaferri, E. Pian +6
At the end of March 2004, the blazar S5 0716+714 underwent an optical outburst that prompted for quasi-simultaneous target-of-opportunity observations with the INTEGRAL and XMM-New…
INTEGRAL observations of the Crab pulsar
T. Mineo, C. Ferrigno, L. Foschini +5
The paper presents the timing and spectral analysis of several observations of the Crab pulsar performed with INTEGRAL in the energy range 3-500 keV. All these observations, when s…
A Short Hard X-ray Flare from the Blazar NRAO 530 Observed by INTEGRAL
L. Foschini, E. Pian, L. Maraschi +6
We report about a short flare from the blazar NRAO 530 occurred on 17 February 2004 and detected serendipitously by the IBIS/ISGRI detector on board INTEGRAL. In the 20-40 keV ener…
INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton observations of the X-ray pulsar IGR J16320-4751/AX J1631.9-4752
J. Rodriguez, A. Bodaghee, P. Kaaret +16
We report on observations of the X-ray pulsar IGR J16320-4751 (a.k.a. AX J1631.9-4752) performed simultaneously with INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton. We refine the source position and iden…
The XMM-Newton view of gamma-ray loud active nuclei
L. Foschini, G. Ghisellini, C. M. Raiteri +8
Notwithstanding the big efforts devoted to the investigation of the mechanisms responsible for the high-energy (E>100 MeV) gamma-ray emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN), the d…
The application of slim disk models to ULX: the case of M33 X-8
L. Foschini, K. Ebisawa, T. Kawaguchi +8
A comparative XMM-Newton archival data spectral study of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) M33 X-8 has been performed by using both the standard disk model and the newly develop…
INTEGRAL observations of the field of the BL Lacertae object S5~0716+714
E. Pian, L. Foschini, V. Beckmann
We have performed observations of the blazar S5 0716+714 with INTEGRAL on 2-6 April 2004. In the first months of 2004, the source had increased steadily in optical brightness and h…
First XMM-Newton study of two Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
L. Foschini, V. Braito, G. G. C. Palumbo +6
The Early Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) contains 150 Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies, most of them previously unknown. We present here the study of the…
INTEGRAL observation of 3EG J1736-2908
G. Di Cocco, L. Foschini, P. Grandi +10
The possible identification by INTEGRAL of the EGRET source 3EG J1736-2908 with the active galactic nucleus GRS 1734-292 is discussed. The latter was discovered in 1990 and later i…