The AGILE Mission

By M. Tavani, et al, F. C. Collaboration. 2003

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Context. AGILE is an Italian Space Agency mission dedicated to observing the gamma-ray Universe. The AGILE’s very innovative instrumentation for the first time combines a gamma-ray imager (sensitive in the energy range 30 MeV–50 GeV), a hard X-ray imager (sensitive in the range 18–60 keV), a calorimeter (sensitive in the range 350 keV–100 MeV), and an anticoincidence system. AGILE was successfully launched on 2007 April 23 from the Indian base of Sriharikota and was inserted in an equatorial orbit with very low particle background. Aims. AGILE provides crucial data for the study of active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts, pulsars, unidentified gamma-ray sources, galactic compact objects, supernova remnants, TeV sources, and fundamental physics by microsecond timing. Methods. An optimal sky angular positioning (reaching 0.1 degrees in gamma-rays and 1–2 arcmin in hard X-rays) and very large fields of view (2.5 sr and 1 sr, respectively) are obtained by the use of Silicon detectors integrated in a very compact instrument. Results. AGILE surveyed the gamma-ray sky and detected many Galactic and extragalactic sources during the first months of observations. Particular emphasis is given to multifrequency observation programs of extragalactic and galactic objects. Conclusions. AGILE is a successful high-energy gamma-ray mission that reached its nominal scientific performance. The AGILE Cycle-1 pointing program started on 2007 December 1, and is open to the international community through a Guest Observer Program.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Observing pulsars and fast transients with LOFAR (2011, background): “…pulsars, which is presently done in detail by the Fermi and Agile satellites and other telescopes like MAGIC and H.E.S.S. (e.g. Abdo et al. 2009; Tavani et al. 2009; Aliu et al. 2008; Aharonian et al. 2007), as well as the search for non-burst-like gravitational waves from pulsars (Abbott et…”
Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A (2018, background): “The Astro-Rivelatore Gamma a Immagini Leggero (AGILE) g-ray telescope (31) confirmed the elevated level of g-ray emission at energies above 0.”
Active galactic nuclei: what’s in a name? (2017, background): “These instruments operate in space and are characterized by a very large FoV (thousands of square degrees; e.g. Tavani 2009; Atwood et al. 2009).”
THE FIRST FERMI-LAT GAMMA-RAY BURST CATALOG (2013, methodology): “…al. 1988; Thompson et al. 1993; Esposito et al. 1999) on board the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO; 1991–2000) and, more recently, by the Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector (GRID) on board the Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero spacecraft (AGILE; Giuliani et al. 2008; Tavani et al. 2008, 2009).”