g.barbiellini -- 1 agile status @ 1yr g. barbiellini on behalf of the agile team
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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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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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• 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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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 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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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