Astro-rivelatore Gamma ad Immagini LEggero (AGILE) is a small gamma-ray astronomy satellite mission of the Italian Space Agency dedicated to high-energy astrophysics launched in 2007 April. Its similar to 1 mu s absolute time tagging capability coupled with a good sensitivity in the 30MeV-30 GeV range, with simultaneous X-ray monitoring in the 18-60 keV band, makes it perfectly suited for the study of gamma-ray pulsars following up on the Compton Gamma RayObservatory/EGRET heritage. In this paper, we present the first AGILE timing results on the known gamma-ray pulsars Vela, Crab, Geminga, and B1706-44. The data were collected from 2007 July to 2008 April, exploiting the mission Science Verification Phase, the Instrument Timing Calibration, and the early Observing Pointing Program. Thanks to its large field of view, AGILE collected a large number of gamma-ray photons from these pulsars (similar to 10,000 pulsed counts for Vela) in only few months of observations. The coupling of AGILE timing capabilities, simultaneous radio/X-ray monitoring, and new tools aimed at precise photon phasing, also exploiting timing noise correction, unveiled new interesting features at the submillisecond level in the pulsars' high-energy light curves.

High-resolution timing observations of spin-powered pulsars with the AGILE gamma-ray telescope

PREST, MICHELA;
2009-01-01

Abstract

Astro-rivelatore Gamma ad Immagini LEggero (AGILE) is a small gamma-ray astronomy satellite mission of the Italian Space Agency dedicated to high-energy astrophysics launched in 2007 April. Its similar to 1 mu s absolute time tagging capability coupled with a good sensitivity in the 30MeV-30 GeV range, with simultaneous X-ray monitoring in the 18-60 keV band, makes it perfectly suited for the study of gamma-ray pulsars following up on the Compton Gamma RayObservatory/EGRET heritage. In this paper, we present the first AGILE timing results on the known gamma-ray pulsars Vela, Crab, Geminga, and B1706-44. The data were collected from 2007 July to 2008 April, exploiting the mission Science Verification Phase, the Instrument Timing Calibration, and the early Observing Pointing Program. Thanks to its large field of view, AGILE collected a large number of gamma-ray photons from these pulsars (similar to 10,000 pulsed counts for Vela) in only few months of observations. The coupling of AGILE timing capabilities, simultaneous radio/X-ray monitoring, and new tools aimed at precise photon phasing, also exploiting timing noise correction, unveiled new interesting features at the submillisecond level in the pulsars' high-energy light curves.
2009
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/691/2/1618?fromSearchPage=true
Agile; pulsar; Vela; X-ray and gamma detection
Pellizzoni, A; Pilia, M; Possenti, A; Fornari, F; Caraveo, P; Del Monte, E; Mereghetti, S; Tavani, Marco; Argan, A; Trois, A; Burgay, M; Chen, A; Cognard, I; Costa, E; D'Amico, N; Esposito, Paolo; Evangelista, Y; Feroci, M; Fuschino, F; Giuliani, A; Halpern, J; Hobbs, G; Hotan, A; Johnston, S; Kramer, M; Longo, Francesco; Manchester, Rn; Marisaldi, M; Palfreyman, J; Weltevrede, P; Barbiellini Amidei, Guido; Boffelli, Fabrizio; Bulgarelli, A; Cattaneo Paolo, Walter; Cocco, V; D'Ammando, F; De Paris, G; Di Cocco, G; Donnarumma, I; Fiorini, Massimiliano; Froysland Tom, Vidar; Galli, M; Gianotti, F; Harding, A; Labanti, C; Lapshov, I; Lazzarotto, F; Lipari, Paolo; Mauri, Fulvio; Morselli, Aldo; Pacciani, L; Perotti, F; Picozza, Piergiorgio; Prest, Michela; Pucella, G; Rapisarda, M; Rappoldi, Andrea; Soffitta, P; Trifoglio, M; Vallazza Erik, Silvio; Vercellone, S; Vittorini, Valerio; Zambra, A; Zanello, Dino; Pittori, C; Verrecchia, F; Preger, B; Santolamazza, P; Giommi, P; Salotti, L.
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