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AGILE status @ 1yr AGILE status @ 1yr

G. Barbiellini

on behalf of the AGILE team

AGILE AGILE

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Scientific Institutes Scientific Institutes involved in the development of AGILEinvolved 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)

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AGILE in orbit…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

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AGILE instrumentAGILE instrument

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Sriharikota launch base (India)

PSLV-C8 launch, April 23, 2007

The AGILE instrumentThe AGILE instrument

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Fotoni a terra e in volo - II

First gamma-ray detected in orbit with the nominal GRID trigger configuration (May 10, 2007)

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AGILE wide FoVAGILE wide FoV

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• 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.

AGILE resultsAGILE results

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

SuperAGILE imagesSuperAGILE images

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3C 454.3

Cygnus region

AGILE gamma-ray sky: 22 Nov. 2007

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Our Galaxy as observed by AGILE above 100 MeV (F4 counts map, July-November 2007)

Galactic Center Pulsars

3C 454.3

0716+714

Cygnus Transient

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AGILE view of the skyAGILE view of the sky

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AGILE GRBs…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

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GRB by SAGRB by SA

GRB 070724b

Del Monte et al. (2008)

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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

GRB070825: MCAL light curvesGRB070825: MCAL light curves

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MCAL candidate TGFMCAL candidate TGF

10 ms

trigger date and time

temporal bin: 100 s! time scale: < 5 ms

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PublicationsPublications

• 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

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AGILE AO-1AGILE AO-1

• 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

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AGILE Cycle-1 PointingsAGILE Cycle-1 Pointings

AGILE missionAGILE mission

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

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The endThe end

thank you !