New ATel issued: ATel #13458 (G. Piano et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #13423 (G. Piano et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #26917 (A. Ursi et al.).
This GRB was also previously reported as an automatic GCN/AGILE-MCAL ALERT NOTICE, trigger ID 507299009.
The GCN/AGILE-MCAL TRIGGER ALERT NOTICES, active since May 11, 2019, alert the community on transient events that trigger the AGILE MCAL on-board trigger logic, and are successively selected and identified as GRBs by an offline burst search algorithm (with significance values greater than 5 sigma).

GCN/AGILE-MCAL ALERT NOTICE SIGN-UP :
To encorporate the AGILE_MCAL_ALERT type, just send an email (especially with your SITE_NAME) to sbarthel@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov saying you want this AGILE-MCAL ALERT notice type added to your configuration.

For more information on automatic AGILE MCAL ALERT notices see:https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/agile_mcal.html

We are pleased to announce the publication of new AGILE gamma-ray data up to November 30, 2019.
The new public AGILE archive now contains all data from December 1, 2007 up to November 30, 2019, i.e. from the start of Cycle-1 up to the end of Cycle-12. AGILE-GRID event files (EVT) and spacecraft auxiliary (LOG) files are available from the SSDC Multimission Archive (MMIA) webpage for the AGILE Mission.

Since October 2015 all AGILE-GRID data are published as soon as they are processed and validated. AGILE satellite operations and all AGILE payload functions are nominal. To produce your own maps and run likelihood tasks please download and install the new public AGILE software available here, and follow the User Manual included. The AGILE public scientific software package AGILE_SW_6.0, adapted from the AGILE Science Tools (TAGNAME = BUILD25), was published on Apr 18, 2019. It includes updated scientific software and calibrations, an updated model for the Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission, a refined procedure for point-like source detection, and the search for extended gamma-ray sources.

For an easy on-line AGILE data analysis, the interested user may also query the entire public AGILE level 3 (LV3) archive through the AGILE-LV3 data analysis tool. The AGILE-LV3 tool is meant to be easily comprehensible, and it does not require any install-on-premises software or calibrations. The underlying AGILE software and calibrations will be updated also in the AGILE-LV3 Tool in the next few months.

New GCN issued: GCN #26549 (F. Longo et al.).
This GRB was also previously reported as an automatic GCN/AGILE-MCAL ALERT NOTICE, trigger ID 504045551.

The GCN/AGILE-MCAL TRIGGER ALERT NOTICES, active since May 11, 2019, alert the community on transient events that trigger the AGILE MCAL on-board trigger logic in one or more predefined timescales (sub-ms, 1 ms, 16 ms, 64 ms, 256 ms, 1024 ms, and 8192 ms), and are successively selected and identified as GRBs by an offline burst search algorithm that yields total significance values greater than 5 sigma.

GCN/AGILE-MCAL ALERT NOTICE SIGN-UP ACTION ITEM:
Since the “Modify Sites Config” webform page has not yet been updated to encorporate the AGILE_MCAL_ALERT type, just send an email (especially with your SITE_NAME) to sbarthel@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov saying you want this AGILE-MCAL ALERT notice type added to your configuration.

For more information on automatic AGILE MCAL ALERT notices see:
https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/agile_mcal.html

New ATel issued: ATel #13352 (F. Lucarelli et al.)

AGILE is detecting gamma-ray emission above 100 MeV from a source positionally consistent with the colliding wind binary Eta Carinae:
New ATel issued: “Enhanced gamma-ray activity from Eta Carinae”, ATel #13329 (G. Piano et al.).

This high-energy gamma-ray activity is consistent with the emission pattern of October 2008, when AGILE observed a peak gamma-ray emission from Eta Carinae a few months before the periastron passage of January 2009 (Tavani et al., ApJ 698, L142, 2009). The next periastron passage should occur by the end of February 2020.

See also:
AGILE top results: April 21, 2009 “AGILE Detection of Gamma-ray Emission from the Eta-Carinae Region”

New GCN issued: GCN #26123 (A. Ursi et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #13244 (F. Verrecchia et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #13065 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

AGILE observed the long GRB 190829A at T0 = 2019-08-29 19:55:53 (UT) first reported by Fermi GBM (GCN #25551) and by Swift (GCN #25552). The scientific ratemeters of the Anti-Coincidence (50-200 keV) and Super-AGILE (SA; 18-60 keV) detected the burst. The GRB 190829A was also seen at VHE gamma-ray energy by H.E.S.S.(GCN 25566).

AGILE ratemeters detection and AGILE-MCAL upper limits are reported in GCN #25577 (C. Pittori et al.).
AGILE-GRID upper limits and a possible sub-threshold gamma-ray source detection are reported in GCN #25578 (G. Piano et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #13011 (M. Cardillo et al.).

We are pleased to announce the publication of new AGILE gamma-ray data up to May 31, 2019 and a new AGILE scientific software package.

We recall that since October 2015 all AGILE-GRID data are published as soon as they are processed and validated. AGILE satellite operations and all AGILE payload functions are nominal. The new public AGILE archive now contains all data from December 1, 2007 up to May 31, 2019, i.e. from the start of Cycle-1 up to the on-going Cycle-12. AGILE-GRID event files (EVT) and spacecraft auxiliary (LOG) files are available from the SSDC Multimission Archive (MMIA) webpage for the AGILE Mission.

To produce your own maps and run likelihood tasks please download and install the new public AGILE software available here, and follow the User Manual included. The new AGILE public scientific software package AGILE_SW_6.0, adapted from the AGILE Science Tools (TAGNAME = BUILD25), was published on Apr 18, 2019. It includes new scientific software and calibrations, an updated model for the Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission, a refined procedure for point-like source detection, and the search for extended gamma-ray sources.

For an easy on-line AGILE data analysis, the interested user may also query the entire public AGILE level 3 (LV3) archive through the AGILE-LV3 data analysis tool. The AGILE-LV3 tool is meant to be easily comprehensible, and it does not require any install-on-premises software or calibrations. The underlying AGILE software and calibrations will be updated also in the AGILE-LV3 tool in the next few months.

We are pleased to announce that the paper: “On The High-Energy Spectral Component and Fine Time Structure of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes” (Marisaldi et al.) has been accepted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research, Doi: 10.1029/2019JD030554. The online version of the new AGILE-MCAL High-Energy Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs) Catalog is available here.

The SSDC web table also gives access to the available TGF light curves and counts details, providing supplementary material to the submitted paper. This third AGILE TGF catalog includes a previously unpublished high-energy dataset of events with energy larger than 30 MeV, observed by the AGILE minicalorimeter (MCAL) from March 2015 to June 2015, in association with lightning measurements.

New ATel issued: ATel #12970 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #12894 (G. Piano et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #24759 (A. Ursi et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #24683 (F. Verrecchia et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #24678 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190521r at T0 = 2019-05-21T07:43:59 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.

Preliminary AGILE-MCAL and AGILE-GRID upper limits have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS:
GCN #24636: LIGO/Virgo S190521r: No counterpart candidate in AGILE-MCAL observations (C. Casentini et al.)
GCN #24638: LIGO/Virgo S190521r: Upper limits from AGILE-GRID observations (F. Verrecchia et al.)

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190521g at T0 = 2019-05-21 03:02:29 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.

Preliminary AGILE-MCAL and AGILE-GRID upper limits have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS:
GCN #24623: LIGO/Virgo S190521g: No counterpart candidates in AGILE-MCAL observations (C. Casentini et al.)
GCN #24626: LIGO-Virgo S190521g: Upper Limits from AGILE-GRID observations (F. Verrecchia et al.)

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190519bj at T0 = 2019-05-19 15:35:44 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.

Preliminary AGILE-MCAL and AGILE-GRID upper limits have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS:
GCN #24603: LIGO/Virgo S190513bm: AGILE MCAL observations (F. Lucarelli et al.)
GCN #24604: LIGO/Virgo S190513bm: AGILE GRID observations (F. Verrecchia et al.)

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190517h at T0 = 2019-05-17 05:51:01 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.

Preliminary AGILE-MCAL and AGILE-GRID upper limits have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS:
GCN #24572: LIGO/Virgo S190513bm: AGILE MCAL observations (A. Ursi et al.)
GCN #24574: LIGO/Virgo S190513bm: AGILE GRID observations (F. Verrecchia et al.)

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190513bm at T0 = 2019-05-13 20:54:28 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.

Preliminary AGILE-MCAL and AGILE-GRID upper limits have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS:
GCN #24526: LIGO/Virgo S190513bm: AGILE MCAL observation (C. Casentini et al.)
GCN #24528: LIGO/Virgo S190513bm: AGILE GRID observations (F. Lucarelli et al.)

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190512at at T0 = 2019-05-12 18:07:14.422 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data. The AGILE satellite at T0 was in the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), and the S190510g Ligo-Virgo 90% c.l. localization region was occulted by the Earth.

Preliminary MCAL results and AGILE GRID upper limits in the first time intervals available after the SAA have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS:
GCN #24507: LIGO-Virgo S190512at: AGILE MCAL observations (A. Ursi et al.)
GCN #24519: LIGO-Virgo S190512at: AGILE GRID observations (C. Pittori et al.)

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190510g at T0 = 2019-05-10 02:59:39 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.
The AGILE exposure at T0 shows that the S190510g Ligo-Virgo localization region was covered by the MCAl instrument for about 90%, and by the GRID instrument for about 60%.

Preliminary results and AGILE MCAL and GRID upper limits have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS:
GCN #24437: LIGO-Virgo S190510g: AGILE MCAL observations
GCN #24457: LIGO-Virgo S190510g: AGILE GRID observations

New ATel issued: ATel #12733 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190503bf at T0 = 2019-05-03 18:54:04.294 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.
The AGILE exposure at T0 shows that the S190503bf Ligo-Virgo localization region was almost completely occulted by the Earth, however, exposure of the field was obtained both before and after T0.

Preliminary results and AGILE GRID upper limits have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS:
GCN #24379: LIGO/Virgo S190503bf: AGILE MCAL observations (A. Ursi et al.)
GCN #24382: LIGO/Virgo S190503bf: AGILE-GRID Observations (G. Piano et al.)

New GCN issued:
GCN #24360: GRB 190501A: AGILE/MCAL and scientific ratemeters detection of a burst (A. Ursi et al.)
GCN #24361: GRB 190501A: AGILE/GRID detection (F. Lucarelli et al.)
GCN #24363: GRB 190501A: refined position from AGILE/GRID analysis (F. Verrecchia et al.)

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190426c at T0 = 2019-04-26T15:21:55.337 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.
The AGILE exposure around T0 covered most of the S190426c Ligo-Virgo localization region (from 75% to 100%).

Preliminary results AGILE MCAL and GRID results have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS:
GCN #24245: LIGO-Virgo S190426c: AGILE MCAL observation (M. Cardillo et al.)
GCN #24246: LIGO/Virgo S190426c: AGILE-GRID Observations (G. Piano et al.)

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190425z at T0 = 2019-04-25 08:18:05 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.

Preliminary results and MCAL and GRID upper limits have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS:
GCN #24180: LIGO-Virgo S190425z: AGILE MCAL observation (C. Casentini et al.)
GCN #24186: LIGO/Virgo S190425z: AGILE-GRID Observations (G. Piano et al.)

New ATel issued: ATel #12685 (M. Cardillo et al.).

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190421ar at T0 = 2019-04-21 21:38:56 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.
The AGILE satellite at T0 was in the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) and scientific telemetry was inhibited, however, exposure of the field was obtained both before and after T0.

Preliminary results and MCAL and GRID upper limits have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS:
GCN #24140: LIGO-Virgo S190421ar: AGILE MCAL observations (A. Ursi et al.)
GCN #24143: LIGO-Virgo S190421ar: AGILE GRID observations (M. Cardillo et al.)

New ATel issued: ATel #12678.

In response to the public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event name S190412m at T0 = 2019-04-12 05:30:44.17 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.
The AGILE exposure at T0 shows that the S190412m Ligo-Virgo localization region was occulted by the Earth, however, exposure of the field was obtained both before and after T0.

Preliminary results and AGILE GRID upper limits have been published in two GCN CIRCULARS (F. Lucarelli et al.):
GCN #24100: LIGO-Virgo S190412m: AGILE preliminary analysis
GCN #24110: LIGO-Virgo S190412m: AGILE GRID observations

In response to the first public LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) alert of the on-going osservative run O3, with trigger event named S190408an at T0 = 2019-04-08 18:18:02 (UT), the AGILE Team performed a quick look follow-up analysis of the AGILE data.
No gamma-ray counterpart candidates were found within the analyzed time intervals around T0, and preliminary flux upper limits were estimated for both the MCAL and the GRID instruments.

The results have been promptly published in 3 GCN CIRCULARS (F. Lucarelli et al.):

GCN #24063: LIGO-Virgo S190408an: AGILE MCAL observations
GCN #24071: LIGO-Virgo S190408an: AGILE GRID observations
GCN #24080: LIGO-Virgo S190408an: further AGILE GRID observations after T0

We are pleased to announce that “The Second AGILE Catalog of Gamma-Ray Sources” (A. Bulgarelli et al., 2019), arXiv:1903.06957, has been accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. The new 2AGL incorporates several analysis improvements, including better calibrations, an updated model for the Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission, and the inclusion of a search for extended gamma-ray sources. The 2AGL Catalog includes 175 high-confidence sources, with a sub-class of 29 “AGILE only” gamma-ray sources that are not present in 1FGL, 2FGL or 3FGL Fermi catalogs.

An on-line version of the new 2AGL Catalog, plus some supplementary information, including AGILE skymaps, is now available as an interactive web table at SSDC.

After the paper publication on A&A, a new version of the 2AGL webpage (V2.0) at SSDC will also give access to other AGILE data products, such as spectra and light curves.

New ATel issued: ATel #12622 (M. Cardillo et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #12623 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #12594 (C. Pittori et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #23930 (A. Ursi et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New ATel issued: ATel #12541 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #23835 (F. Verrecchia et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New GCN issued: GCN #23752 (A. Ursi et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New GCN issued: GCN #23712 (A. Ursi et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

We are pleased to announce the publication of new AGILE gamma-ray data up to November 30, 2018.
Since December 28, 2018, the new public AGILE archive now contains all data from December 1, 2007 up to November 30, 2018,i.e. from the start of Cycle-1 up to the end of Cycle-11. AGILE-GRID event files (EVT) and spacecraft auxiliary (LOG) files are available from the SSDC Multimission Archive (MMIA) webpage for the AGILE Mission.

We recall that since October 2015 all AGILE-GRID data are published as soon as they are processed and validated. The new AGILE Cycle-11 data were obtained with AGILE observing a large portion of the sky in spinning mode, and they have been processed with the latest available software and calibrations. AGILE satellite operations and all AGILE payload functions are nominal.

For an easy on-line AGILE data analysis, the interested user may also query the entire public AGILE level 3 (LV3) archive through the AGILE-LV3 data analysis tool. The AGILE-LV3 web tool is meant to be easily comprehensible, and it does not require any installed software or calibrations. We also plan to update the underlying AGILE software and calibrations in the next few months. Stay tuned!

New GCN issued: GCN #23600 (A. Ursi et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New GCN issued: GCN #23560 (A. Ursi et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New GCN issued: GCN #23429 (A. Ursi et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New ATel issued: ATel #12208 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #12148 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #12123 (M. Cardillo et al.). and Erratum: ATel #12125

New ATel issued: ATel #12105 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

As part of the collaborative efforts with SSDC, Dr. Franco Paoletti incorporated two remote space data analysis activities in the curriculum of the “Introduction to Modern Astro-Plasma Physics” course, recently approved by the Board of Education of the East Windsor Regional School District in Hightstown, NJ (USA).

The two activities will see students analyzing data coming from both Solar System exploration and high-energy observations of the Universe, and will be performed using the SSDC interactive online analysis tools: MATISSE for Solar System observations and AGILE-LV3 for the gamma-ray AGILE satellite data.

The activities point to reproduce published scientific results, such as the characterization of dark material on the Vesta asteroid (e.g. Palomba et al., 2014) and the analysis of a couple of exceptional bright flares seen in gamma-rays from monster black holes in distant galaxies (e.g. Astronomer’s Telegrams: ATel #9186 and ATel #7631).

The final goal is to provide the students with knowledge, skills, and competences required to correctly use tools specifically designed at our data center for professional researchers, and to get a better understanding of the day to day work of an astrophysicist.

New GCN issued: GCN #23242 (A. Ursi et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New GCN issued: GCN #23231 (F. Verrecchia et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New GCN issued: GCN #23226 (A. Ursi et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New ATel issued: ATel #12026 (M. Cardillo et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #12005 (G. Piano et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #22970 (A. Ursi et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

Neutrinos, electrically uncharged and traveling at nearly the speed of light, are able to escape the densest astrophysical environments and point back to their source of origin, therefore they represent unique tracers of cosmic-ray particles acceleration. Such extreme environments can be found in blazars, that are active galactic nuclei characterized by accreting supermassive black holes developing immense relativistic jets of plasma pointing close to our line of sight. Blazars are among the most powerful objects in the universe speculated to be sources of high-energy cosmic rays. 

The discovery of an association of a very high-energy neutrino with a flaring photon gamma-ray blazar object by the IceCube experiment and the Fermi space satellite,  announced on July 12, 2018 with a press conference by NSF  and a cover and paper in the Science journal, highlights for the first time mechanisms and conditions for highest-energy cosmic rays acceleration and the existence of extragalactic sources producing high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays. The detection of an about 290 TeV energy neutrino (namely the event IC-170922A) on 22 September 2017 by the IceCube experiment at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, in Antarctica, was found to be consistent with the location of a Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope catalogued gamma-ray source (3FGL J0509.4+0541, i.e. the blazar TXS 0506+056). The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) first reported the positional coincidence (within 0.1 degrees) of the very high-energy neutrino event with a gamma-ray source detected at E>100 MeV, the blazar TXS 0506+056 (also known as MG1 J050927+0541, RX J0509.3+054, ZS 0506+056 and other), in a flaring state, issuing one Astronomer’s Telegram (ATel) on September, 28, 2017. 

This triggered many observations and results with the corresponding multi-wavelength follow-up measurements, for example by MAGIC, AGILE, Swift and NuSTAR. All these are missions and experiments see the participation of the ASI Space Science Data Center (SSDC), and Fermi, MAGIC and AGILE are built with a fundamental contribution of INFN and INAF. Notably AGILE confirmed soon after the association of IC-170922A with the E>100 MeV gamma-ray activity of TXS 0506+056 with another ATel, while the MAGIC Cherenkov telescope also detected it and revealed periods where the gamma-ray flux from the blazar reached energies of up to 400 GeV. Subsequent measurements of the source have been completed at X-ray, optical, and radio wavelengths. Formerly AGILE suggested also a possible association of gamma rays with an IceCube neutrino event in July 2016, after the detection of a gamma-ray transient found to be consistent with the position and time of IC-160731. 

Based on the redshift of TXS 0506+056, with value z=0.3365 corresponding to a luminosity distance of 5.5 billion light years, accurately measured and published in February 2018 (only upper/lower limits were available before), constraints are derived for the muon neutrino luminosity for this source, found to be similar to the luminosity observed in gamma rays. The energies of the gamma rays and the neutrino indicate that blazar jets may accelerate cosmic rays to at least several PeV. Chance correlation of this neutrino with the flare of TXS 0506+056 is statistically disfavored at the level of 3 sigma in any of the evaluated models associating neutrino and gamma-ray production. This important result for the newborn multi-messenger astro-particle physics confirms the close relations among the different cosmic messengers. The most extreme cosmic explosions producing transient gamma rays (GRBs) also produce gravitational waves, and the most extreme cosmic accelerators producing intense, persisting and variable flux of gamma-rays (blazars) produce high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays. 

Through the Fermi and AGILE satellites and the large ground based astro-particle experiments for neutrinos, UHE cosmic rays and gravitational waves, gamma rays are providing a bridge to each of these new cosmic signals, opening the multi-messenger astronomy era. Many interpretations and works, published or in preparation, are following up the discovery, shedding light on a truly multi-messenger scenario for the flaring GeV gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056 and the implications for very high-energy neutrino emission and cosmic ray acceleration. The ASI SSDC is contributing and supporting archive, data, software and science operations and data analysis tasks for the Fermi, AGILE, Swift, and NuSTAR missions.

More information:

NSF IceCube Press Conference video on multimessenger IC-170922A astronomy	Fermi ATel#10791	Fermi ATel#11419	Multifrequency characterization paper 1
NASA Fermi press release	ASAS SN ATel#10794	ANTARES search paper	Multifrequency characterization paper 2
Main discovery paper 1 (multi-messenger IceCube Fermi, MAGIC, AGILE, et al.) on Science	AGILE ATel#10801	MAGIC paper 1	Redshift paper
Companion paper 2 (IceCube only) on Science	MAGIC ATel#10817	MAGIC paper 2	AGILE paper on previous event IC-160731
MAGIC press news	Swift and NuSTAR ATel#10845	VERITAS  paper

Italian news:

ASI news

INFN news INFN e&po material

INAF news 1 INAF news 2 INAF news 3 INAF news 4

INAF news on previous event IC-160731

Figure collage credits: SCIENCE magazine/American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), SCIENCE Communication Lab, IceCube Collaboration, NSF U.S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Programs, NSF U.S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab, NASA/DOE/Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration, Sonoma State University, MAGIC Collaboration, AGILE Collaboration, PGC/NASA U.S. Geological Survy Data SIO,NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO Landsat/Copernicus, Jamie Yang, Savannah Guthrie, Nicolle R. Fuller, Aurore Simonnet.

New ATel issued: ATel #11814 (G. Piano et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #11804 (G. Piano et al.).

We are pleased to announce that all the presentations authorized for distribution given during the 16th AGILE Workshop “Fast and AGILE: Multimessenger Astrophysics and Beyond” (ASI, 18 May, 2018), are now publicly available.

The slides (pdf format) may be viewed, together with the final program and the recorded videos of the event, at the Workshop web site. On behalf of the Workshop SOC and LOC, we thank very much all the participants.

We announce the publication of new AGILE gamma-ray data. The public AGILE archive now contains all data from December 1, 2007 to May 31, 2018, i.e. from the start of Cycle-1 up to the on-going Cycle-11. AGILE-GRID event files (EVT) and spacecraft auxiliary (LOG) files are available from the SSDC Multimission Archive (MMIA) webpage for the AGILE Mission.

We recall that, starting from October 2015 the standard one-year proprietary period was eliminated, and all AGILE-GRID data are now published as soon as they are processed and validated. The new public AGILE Cycle-11 data were obtained with AGILE observing a large portion of the sky in spinning mode, and they have been processed with the latest public software and calibrations.

For an easy on-line AGILE data analysis, we recall that the interested user may also query the entire public AGILE level 3 (LV3) archive through the AGILE-LV3 data analysis tool.

New ATel issued: ATel #11687 (M. Cardillo et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #22741 (A. Ursi et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New ATel issued: ATel #11553 (G. Piano et al.).

We are pleased to announce the publication of new AGILE gamma-ray data.
The public AGILE archive now contains all data from December 1, 2007 to December 31, 2017, i.e. from the start of Cycle-1 up to the start of the on-going Cycle-11. AGILE-GRID event files (EVT) and spacecraft auxiliary (LOG) files are available from the SSDC Multimission Archive (MMIA) webpage for the AGILE Mission.

We recall that, starting from October 2015 the standard one-year proprietary period was eliminated, and all AGILE-GRID data are now published as soon as they are processed and validated. The new AGILE Cycle-10 and Cycle-11 data which become public today were obtained with AGILE observing a large portion of the sky in spinning mode, and they have been processed with the latest available software and calibrations.

For an easy on-line AGILE data analysis, the interested user may also query the entire public AGILE level 3 (LV3) archive through the AGILE-LV3 data analysis tool. By simply entering in the AGILE-LV3 web form the source name or coordinates of the object of interest and clicking on one of the ‘Interactive Analysis’ buttons on the query-result table, the user can execute the official AGILE Maximum Likelihood (ML) analysis in each available time bin of the chosen duration (default is 28 days).
By selecting more than one time bin, with a click of the mouse it is also possible to generate in few minutes the complete gamma-ray light curve above 100 MeV over the selected period with default analysis parameters.

The AGILE-LV3 tool is meant to be easily comprehensible, even without many instructions and it does not require any install-on-premises software or calibrations. Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.

New ATel issued: ATel #11415 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #11222 (A. Ursi et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #11200 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #22321 (F. Verrecchia et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New ATel issued: ATel #11127 (G. Piano et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #11115 (C. Pittori et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #22288 (F. Verrecchia et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New ATel issued: ATel #11073 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #11045 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #11043 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #11003 (G. Piano et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #10965 (F. Verrecchia et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #10937 (G. Piano et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #10801 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #21689 (M. Cardillo et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New ATel issued: ATel #10623 (G. Piano et al.).

AGILE Cycle-10 data up to the June 30, 2017 are now publicly available, according to the current AGILE scientific data policy. Starting from October 2015 all AGILE-GRID data are published as soon as they are processed and validated.

The new public AGILE archives now contain all data from the start of Cycle-1 on December 1, 2007 Observation Block (OB) 4900, up to the first half of Cycle-10, OB 26500. AGILE Level 2 archive (STD1) of event lists and ancillary files is available from the Multimission Archive (MMIA) webpage for the AGILE Mission..

We are pleased to announce also the publication of the AGILE-LV3 data analysis tool, which provides an easy web interface for interactive on-line analysis on AGILE-GRID data, based on the official AGILE scientific software release. It does not require any install-on-premises software or calibrations.

The user may query the entire new public AGILE Level 3 archive (STD1Kal) of counts, exposure and diffuse gamma-ray maps by simply entering in the AGILE-LV3 web form the source name or coordinates of the object of interest. From the query-result table, by clicking on one of the ‘Interactive Analysis’ buttons the user can execute the AGILE Maximum Likelihood (ML) analysis at the source coordinates. By selecting more than one time bin, with a click of the mouse it is also possible to generate in few minutes the complete gamma-ray light curve above 100 MeV over the selected period with default analysis parameters (default is 28-day timebins).

New ATel issued: ATel #10563 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #10560 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #10386 (G. Minervini et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #10138 (G. Piano et al.).

In 2015 the AGILE Mission Board suggested a change in the AGILE gamma-ray scientific data policy.
The standard one-year proprietary period requirement was eliminated, and starting from October 2015 all AGILE-GRID data are published as soon as they are processed and validated.

The new public AGILE archive now contains all data from the start of Cycle-1 on December 1, 2007 Observation Block (OB) 4900, up to the end of Cycle-9 on November 30, 2016, OB 25100.
Data are available from the ASDC Multimission Archive (MMIA) webpage for the AGILE Mission..

The query to the archive give access to all AGILE public data through an interactive webpage including the ASDC “Interactive Analysis” tool. The tool allows web users to preview the AGILE data fields, and to perform a preliminary analysis around a chosen sky position.

New GCN issued: GCN #20545 (A. Ursi et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New GCN issued: GCN #20525 (Y. Evangelista et al., on behalf of the AGILE Team).

New GCN issued: GCN #20474 (F. Verrecchia et al., on behalf of the AGILE team).

New ATel issued: ATel #9934 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9911 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9863 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9840 (F. Verrecchia et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9788 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9743 (G. Minervini et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9623 (P. Munar-Adrover et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9617 (P. Munar-Adrover et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9586 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9520 (G. Minervini et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9450 (P. Munar-Adrover et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9429 (G. Piano et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9350 (C. Pittori et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9295 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9232 (F. Verrecchia et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9186 (G. Munar-Adrover et al.).

AGILE-GRID sky map (E >100 MeV) in Aitoff projection during the period 22-24 June, 2016, showing the 3C 454.3 flare.

New ATel issued: ATel #9168 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #9157 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8970 (G. Piano et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8960 (F. Verrecchia et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8925 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8879 (G. Piano et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8866 (C. Pittori et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8593 (C. Pittori et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8597 (M. Tavani et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8536 (A. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8476 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8344 (G. Piano et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8266 (C. Pittori et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8223 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #8129 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

A change in AGILE gamma-ray scientific data policy was suggested by the Mission Board and it has been approved by ASI. To strengthen the engagement of the Scientific Community during the extended lifetime of the AGILE mission the standard one-year proprietary period was eliminated.

Starting from October 5, 2015, all AGILE-GRID data will be published as soon as they will be processed and validated, about 4 times a year.

The new public AGILE archive now contains all data from December 1, 2007 up to June 30, 2015. AGILE data are available as usual from the ASDC Multimission Archive (MMIA) webpage for the AGILE Mission.

Prof. Barbiellini Amidei, full professor at the Physics Department of the Trieste University, currently retired, has a long experience in the field of elementary particles and of high-energy astrophysics of cosmic radiation.

Both AGILE and Fermi instruments use silicon detectors, precisely proposed for a space application by Prof. Barbiellini Amidei in 1987. His many students and colleagues have always admired his working method and his team-working attitude in common projects, often following his original intuitions.

For further information see MEDIA INAF and ASI News.

New ATel issued: ATel #7687 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #7631 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #7589 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #7539 (G. Piano et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #7457 (C. Pittori et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #7239 (F. Verrecchia et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #7227 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #7193 (C. Pittori et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #7155 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

On January 19, 2015 at 05:49:25 UTC the AGILE satellite successfully completed its 40.000th pass over the ASI Malindi Ground Station.

Launched April 23, 2007 in low Earth orbit, AGILE is working nominally after almost 8 years. The Italian satellite continues its exploration of the high-energy Universe, also giving a crucial contribution to the study of extreme Terrestrial atmospheric events (TGFs).

All AGILE data are regularly received and processed at the AGILE Data Center at ASDC, where the public archive now contains all observations from December 1, 2007 up to November 30, 2013. The data are available from the ASDC Multimission Archive webpage for the AGILE Mission.

Also read: “Le 40mila orbite di Agile”, ASI news (in italian).

The proprietary period for all AGILE Cycle-6 Observation Blocks, up to 2013-11-30 (from OB 15600 to OB 17900) has currently expired. The data are now public and available from the ASDC Multimission Archive (MMIA) webpage for the AGILE Mission.

AGILE Cycle-6 data were obtained with AGILE observing a large portion of the sky in spinning mode, and they have been processed with the latest available software and calibrations.

The new public archive now contains all AGILE data from December 1, 2007 up to November 30, 2013 (from Cycle-1 to Cycle-6).

The query to the archive give access to all AGILE public data through an interactive webpage including the ASDC “Interactive Analysis” tool. The tool allows web users to preview the AGILE data fields, and to perform a preliminary analysis around a chosen sky position.

New ATel issued: ATel #6733 (F. Verrecchia et al.).

The proprietary period for the first AGILE Cycle-6 Observation Blocks, up to 2013-06-30 (from OB 15600 to OB 16900) has currently expired. The data are now public and available from the ASDC Multimission Archive (MMIA) webpage for the AGILE Mission.

AGILE Cycle-6 data were obtained with AGILE observing a large portion of the sky in spinning mode, and they have been processed with the latest available software and calibrations.

The query to the archive give access to all AGILE public data through an interactive webpage including the ASDC “Interactive Analysis” tool. The tool allows web users to preview the AGILE data fields, and to perform a preliminary analysis around a chosen sky position.

New ATel issued: ATel #6457 (F. Lucarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #6427 (F. Verrecchia et al.).

AGILE 6-day intensity map (E> 100 MeV) of the transient source region during the flare on August 21-27, 2014, and before it on August 12-18 2014.

New ATel issued: ATel #6366 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #6365 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #6234 (A. Bulgarelli et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #6231 (C. Pittori et al.).

New ATel issued: ATel #6217 (F. Verrecchia et al.).

New GCN issued: GCN #16350 (S. Golenetskii et al.; G. Di Cocco, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, C. Labanti, and M. Marisaldi, on behalf of the AGILE MCAL team).

New ATel issued: ATel #6182 (F. Verrecchia et al.).

We are pleased to announce that all the presentations authorized for distribution given during the 12th AGILE Workshops “ASTRO-EARTH: astrophysics and high-energy terrestrial phenomena” (8-9 May, 2014), are now publicly available.

The slides (pdf format) may be viewed, together with the final program, at the Workshops web sites:

http://www.asdc.asi.it/12thagilemeeting/

On behalf of the Workshops SOC and LOC, we thank very much all the participants.

New GCN issued: GCN #16058 (C. Pittori et al.)

Following the IPN triangulation of GRB 140330A (GCN #16051) and subsequent gamma-ray data analysis, the high-energy source detected by Fermi (GCN #16048) and by AGILE (GCN #16058) was found to be unrelated to GRB 140330A, and it has been tentatively associated with the extra-galactic radio source PKS 2136-642, as reported in GCN #16062.

New ATel issued: ATel #8974 (F. Lucarelli et al.).