Title of article
The observation of gamma ray bursts and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes with AGILE
Author/Authors
Del Monte، نويسنده , , E. and Barbiellini، نويسنده , , G. and Fuschino، نويسنده , , F. and Giuliani، نويسنده , , A. and Longo، نويسنده , , F. and Marisaldi، نويسنده , , M. and Mereghetti، نويسنده , , S. and Moretti، نويسنده , , E. and Trifoglio، نويسنده , , M. and Vianello، نويسنده , , G. and Costa، نويسنده , , E. and Donnarumma، نويسنده , , Stanlei I. and Evangelista، نويسنده , , Y. and Feroci، نويسنده , , M. and Gallil، نويسنده , , M. an، نويسنده ,
Pages
4
From page
155
To page
158
Abstract
Since its early phases of operation, the AGILE mission is successfully observing Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the hard X-ray band with the SuperAGILE imager and in the MeV range with the Mini-Calorimeter. Up to now, three firm GRB detections were obtained above 25 MeV and some bursts were detected with lower statistical confidence in the same energy band. When a GRB is localized, either by SuperAGILE or Swift/BAT or INTEGRAL/IBIS or Fermi/GBM or IPN, inside the field of view of the Gamma Ray Imager of AGILE, a detection is searched for in the gamma ray band or an upper limit is provided. A promising result of AGILE is the detection of very short gamma ray transients, a few ms in duration and possibly identified with Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes. In this paper we show the current status of the observation of Gamma Ray Bursts and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes with AGILE.
Keywords
Silicon microstrip detector , High energy astrophysics , Gamma ray burst , Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Record number
2015999
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