Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008head...10.2805t&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #10, #28.05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
AGILE is an ASI space Mission dedicated to high-energy astrophysics. The satellite was launched on April 23, 2007 in a quasi-equatorial low-background orbit. The AGILE instrument is very compact and designed to simultaneously detect and image photons in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV and 18 - 60 keV energy bands with excellent imaging and timing capabilities. AGILE is characterized by an unprecedently large field of view covering 1/5 of the entire sky at energies above 30 MeV. The instrument is completed by an Anticoincidence shield and by a CsI calorimeter that is capable of independent GRB triggering in the energy band 0.35-50 MeV. AGILE carried out satellite testing and the in-orbit calibration during the period May-November, 2007. The AGILE Cycle-1 (open to guest observers) started on Dec. 1, 2007. The first scientific results of AGILE will be overviewed, including the detections of several remarkable blazars, Galactic sources, and GRBs.
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