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AGILE status @ 1yr G. Barbiellini on behalf of the AGILE team

This text provides an overview of the AGILE satellite's first year in orbit, including the completion of satellite commissioning and science verification phases, successful detection of gamma-ray sources, blazar detections, and the ongoing observation cycle. The text also mentions the AGILE Guest Observer program and the mission's focus on harmonizing galactic and extra-galactic astrophysics.

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AGILE status @ 1yr G. Barbiellini on behalf of the AGILE team

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  1. AGILE status @ 1yr G. Barbiellini on behalf of the AGILE team

  2. AGILE

  3. Scientific Institutes involved in the development of AGILE • INAF-IASF Milano • INAF-IASF Bologna • INAF-IASF Roma • INFN- Sez. Trieste • INFN- Sez. Roma I • INFN- Sez. Roma II • INFN- Sez. Pavia • Università di Trieste • Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” • Università “La Sapienza” • CIFS - Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale (Torino)

  4. AGILE in orbit… • First ASI Small Scientific Mission • Scientific Mission dedicated to gamma-ray and X-ray astrophysics • Around 6500 orbits. • Healthy Scientific Instrument • Satellite Commissioning Phase completed • Science verification phase and in-orbit calibrations completed • Very promising scientific performance • First Observation Cycle Ongoing

  5. AGILE instrument

  6. The AGILE instrument Sriharikota launch base (India) PSLV-C8 launch, April 23, 2007

  7. Fotoni a terra e in volo - II First gamma-ray detected in orbit with the nominal GRID trigger configuration (May 10, 2007)

  8. AGILE wide FoV

  9. AGILE results • Vela and Crab PSR calibration • Monitoring of many Galactic hard X-ray sources • Blazar detections • 3C 279 • 3C 273 • 3C 454.3 (repeated gamma-ray flares) • PKS1510-089 • 0716+714 • ……. • Several GRBs detected by SuperAGILE and MCAL (MCAL detects ~ 1/week) • Discovery of transient gamma-ray sources in the Galactic plane.

  10. SuperAGILE View of the Galactic Plane (3.6 days, l=337,b=8) SuperAGILE images

  11. AGILE gamma-ray sky: 22 Nov. 2007 Cygnus region 3C 454.3

  12. Our Galaxy as observed by AGILE above 100 MeV (F4 counts map, July-November 2007) 0716+714 Galactic Center Pulsars Cygnus Transient 3C 454.3

  13. AGILE view of the sky

  14. AGILE GRBs… • ~ Many interesting GRBs since July • only handful of GRBs in the inner FOV • MCAL detects ~ 1 GRB/week above 350 keV • 1 event with gamma-rays above 30 MeV • GRB AGILE trigger search in operation

  15. GRB by SA Del Monte et al. (2008) GRB 070724b

  16. GRB070825: MCAL light curves 0.35-0.7 MeV 0.7 - 1.4 MeV 1.4 - 2.5 MeV 2.5 - 5.5 MeV 5.5 - 11 MeV 11 - 22 MeV

  17. MCAL candidate TGF trigger date and time temporal bin: 100 ms! time scale: < 5 ms 10 ms

  18. Publications • 3 publications on refereed journals • 1 on the first GRB • 2 on AGN • 1 on Gamma data only • 1 on Multiwavelenght data • ~ 10 in the publication pipeline • 18 ATEL – rapid communication on flaring events • Extragalactic flares • Galactic transients • 11 GCN – dedicated notices on GRBs

  19. AGILE Guest Observer Program (Cycle-1) Announcement of Opportunity issued on October 1, 2007. Deadline: end of October, 2007. Start AGILE Cycle-1: Dec. 1, 2007 AGILE team list http://agile.asdc.asi.it AGILE AO-1

  20. AGILE mission AGILE Cycle-1 Pointings Harmonize galactic and extra-galactic astrophysics with long baseline pointings at the Gal. plane being ready to react within 1-2 days to transients

  21. The end thank you !

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