AGILE DATA CENTER AT ASDC AND AGILE HIGHLIGHTS

We present an overview of the main AGILE Data Center activities and the AGILE scientific highlights during the first 5 years of operations. AGILE is an ASI space mission in joint collaboration with INAF, INFN and CIFS, dedicated to the observation of the gamma-ray Universe. The AGILE satellite was launched on April 23rd, 2007, and is devoted to gamma-ray astrophysics in the 30MeV ÷ 50 GeV energy range, with simultaneous X-ray imaging capability in the 18 ÷ 60 keV band. Despite the small size and budget, AGILE has produced several important scientific results, including the unexpected discovery of strong and rapid gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula over daily timescales. This discovery won AGILE PI and the AGILE Team the prestigious Bruno Rossi Prize for 2012, an international award in the field of high energy astrophysics. Thanks to its sky monitoring capability and fast ground segment alert system, AGILE is substantially improving our knowledge of the gamma-ray sky, also making a crucial contribution to the study of the terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) detected in the Earth atmosphere. The AGILE Data Center, part of the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC) located in Frascati, Italy, is in charge of all the science oriented activities related to the analysis, archiving and distribution of AGILE data

AGILE Highlights after Six Years in Orbit

AGILE is an ASI space mission in collaboration with INAF, INFN and CIFS, dedicated to the observation of the gamma-ray Universe in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy range, with simultaneous X-ray imaging capability in the 18-60 keV band. The AGILE satellite was launched on April 23rd, 2007, and produced several important scientic results, among which the unexpected discovery of strong ares from the Crab Nebula. This discovery won to the AGILE PI and the AGILE Team the Bruno Rossi Prize for 2012 by the High Energy Astrophysics division of the American Astronomical Society. Thanks to its sky monitoring capability and fast ground segment alert system, AGILE detected many Galactic and extragalactic sources: among other results AGILE discovered gamma-ray emission from the microquasar Cygnus X-3, detected many bright blazars, discovered several new gamma-ray pulsars, and discovered emission up to 100 MeV from Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes. We present an overview of the main AGILE Data Center activities and the AGILE scientic highlights after 6 years of operations

AGILE results on relativistic outflows above 100MeV

We give an overview of the AGILE γ-ray satellite scientific highlights. AGILE is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) mission devoted to observations in the 30MeV-50GeV γ-ray energy range, with simultaneous X-ray imaging in the 18-60keV band. Launched in April 2007, the AGILE satellite has completed its tenth year of operations in orbit, and it is substantially contributing to improve our knowledge of the high-energy sky. Emission from cosmic sources at energies above 100MeV is intrinsically nonthermal, and the study of the wide variety of observed Galactic and extragalactic γ-ray sources provides a unique opportunity to test theories of particle acceleration and radiation processes in extreme conditions

AGILE: ten years after

AGILE is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) mission devoted toγ-ray astrophysics in the 30 MeV- 50 GeV energy range, with simultaneous X-ray imaging capability in the 18-60 keV band.Launched in April 2007, the AGILE satellite has completed its tenth year of operations in orbitwith all detectors operating nominally. The small high-tech jewel, designed for an operative lifeof only two years, continues its mission with high efficiency, and it is substantially contributingto improve our knowledge of the high-energy sky. We present an overview of the main AGILEγ-ray satellite scientific results and discoveries

Pseudoscalar Vertex and Quark Masses

We analyse available data on the quark pseudoscalar vertex and extract the contribution og the Goldstone boson pole. The strength of the pole is found to be quite large at presently accessible scales. We draw the important consequences of this finding for the various definitions of quark masses.Comment: LATTICE99 (Improvement and Renormalization), 3 p., 3 fi

AGILE hunts gravitational waves counterparts

After the breakthrough discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration in 2015, the quest for electromagnetic counterparts to extreme gravitational events is now open. We report the results of an extensive search through AGILE data for a high-energy counterpart to the first gravitational wave event ever detected: GW150914. The Italian Space Agency satellite AGILE devoted to gamma-ray astrophysics is operating nominally since its launch on April 23, 2007, and it is continuosly monitoring the sky in a spinning observation mode. With the potential of covering ∼80% of the entire sky with its gamma-ray instrument more than 100 times a day, AGILE is currently at the forefront in the hunt for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves. Even though a gamma-ray counterpart of the GW150914 event was not detected, the prospects for future AGILE observations of GW sources are shown to be very promisin

Pseudoscalar Vertex, Goldstone Boson and Quark Masses on the Lattice

We analyse the Structure Function collaboration data on the quark pseudoscalar vertex and extract the Goldstone boson pole contribution, in 1/p2. The strength of the pole is found to be quite large at presently accessible scales. We draw the important consequences of this finding for the various definitions of quark masses, and point out potential problems with the operator product expansion.Comment: 13 pages, 6 eps figures, LaTeX. Minor modifications to the text, and corrections to Fig.

Multi-Wavelength Observations of the HBL Object 1ES 1011+496 in Spring 2008

In the spring of 2008 MAGIC organised multi-wavelength (MWL) observations of the blazar 1ES 1011+496. 1ES 1011+496 is a high-frequency peaked BL Lac object discovered at VHE gamma-rays by MAGIC in spring 2007 during an optical outburst reported by the Tuorla Blazar Monitoring Programme. MAGIC re-observed the source during the 2008 MWL campaign which also included the Mets\"ahovi, KVA, Swift and AGILE telescopes. This was the first MWL campaign on this source that also included VHE coverage. MAGIC observed 1ES 1011+496 from March 4th to May 24th 2008 for a total of 27.9 hours, of which 20 h remained after quality cuts. The observations resulted in a detection of the source a ~7 sigma significance level with a mean flux and spectral index similar to those during the discovery. Here we will present the results of the MAGIC observations of the source in combination with contemporaneous observations at other wavelengths (radio, optical, X-rays, high energy gamma-rays) and discuss their implications on the modelling of the spectral energy distribution.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, contribution to the 32nd ICRC, Beijing 201