AGILE detection of a gamma-ray flare from the blazar 3C 273 ATel #2376
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AGILE detection of a gamma-ray flare from the blazar PKS 1222+216 ATel #2348
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INTEGRAL/IBIS observation of the blazar 3C 454.3 during the decaying phase of the gamma-ray super-flare
ATel #2344
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AGILE detects an extraordinary gamma-ray activity from the FSRQ 3C 454.3 ATel #2326
AGILE DETECTS A GIANT GAMMA-RAY
FLARE FROM THE BLACK HOLE
GALAXY 3C 454.3
("Crazy Diamond")
(December 2-8, 2009)
The strongest ever gamma-ray source in the sky !
AGILE first detection of gamma-rays above 100 MeV from the microquasar Cygnus X-3
The paper "Extreme particle acceleration in the microquasar Cygnus X-3",
Tavani et al., Nature, vol. 462, 620-623 (3 December 2009) Click here
(see also arXiv:0910.5344), reports the AGILE detection of gamma-ray flaring emission from the microquasar Cygnus X-3, which tends to occur before the onset of powerful relativistic radio jets.
On November 4, 2009 at 12:25:54 the AGILE scientific operations were reconfigured. The satellite will be operating in a "spinning mode", i.e., with the instrument axis sweeping the accessible sky with an angular speed of 1 degree/sec. The instrument and all detectors are operating nominally.
The figure above (in Galactic coordinates) shows a typical 100-orbit gamma-ray intensity map above 100 MeV in the AGILE spinning configuration.
