AGILE hunts gravitational waves counterparts

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Date Issued
2016
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Abstract
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 promising
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Frontier Research in Astrophysics II (FRAPWS2016)
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Giovannelli, Franco; Sabau-Graziati, Lola
Volume
269
Start page
83
Conferenece
Mondello Workshop 2016 Frontier Research in Astrophysics – II
Conferenece place
Mondello, Palermo. Italy
Conferenece date
23-28 May, 2016
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1824-8039
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2016frap.confE..83P
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open.access
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