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AGILE status @ 1yr G. Barbiellini on behalf of the AGILE team. AGILE. 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
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AGILE status @ 1yr G. Barbiellini on behalf of the AGILE team
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)
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
The AGILE instrument Sriharikota launch base (India) PSLV-C8 launch, April 23, 2007
Fotoni a terra e in volo - II First gamma-ray detected in orbit with the nominal GRID trigger configuration (May 10, 2007)
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.
SuperAGILE View of the Galactic Plane (3.6 days, l=337,b=8) SuperAGILE images
AGILE gamma-ray sky: 22 Nov. 2007 Cygnus region 3C 454.3
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
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
GRB by SA Del Monte et al. (2008) GRB 070724b
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
MCAL candidate TGF trigger date and time temporal bin: 100 ms! time scale: < 5 ms 10 ms
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
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
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
The end thank you !