Observations of Gamma Ray Bursts with AGILE
F. Longo, G. Barbiellini, E. Del Monte, M. Marisaldi, F. Fuschino, A., Giuliani (for the AGILE Collaboration)
TL;DR
The paper reviews AGILE satellite observations of Gamma Ray Bursts, highlighting detections and upper limits in gamma-ray energies, contributing to understanding GRB emission in high-energy bands.
Contribution
It provides the first comprehensive overview of AGILE's GRB detections and upper limits in gamma-ray energies up to 2011.
Findings
AGILE localized about 1 GRB per month with SuperAGILE.
Detected four GRBs in the 20 MeV to GeV range.
Set upper limits for non-detected GRBs.
Abstract
The AGILE satellite, in orbit since 2007, localized up to October 2009 about 1 Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) per month with the hard X-ray imager SuperAGILE (18 - 60 keV) (with a rate reduced by a factor 2-3 in spinning mode) and is detecting around 1 GRB per week with the non-imaging Mini-Calorimeter (MCAL, 0.35 - 100 MeV). Up to October 2011 the AGILE Gamma Ray Imaging Detector firmly detected four GRBs in the energy band between 20 MeV and few GeV. In this paper we review the status of the GRBs observation with AGILE and discuss the upper limits in the gamma-ray band of the non-detected events.
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Taxonomy
TopicsGamma-ray bursts and supernovae · Astro and Planetary Science · Nuclear Physics and Applications