Eight years after the last EGRET observations in gamma-ray, the GRID (30 MeV - 50 GeV) and SuperAGILE (18 - 60 keV) experiments on board the AGILE mission observed the Virgo sky from December 16, 2007 and January 6, 2008. We organized a multi-wavelength campaign for the FSRQ 3C 273 with joint observations from the REM observatory (covering the near-IR and optical), Swift (near-UV and 0.2-10 keV). We report the preliminary results from the campaign. The first week the source was not detectable in Gamma Rays. Then we detected gamma-ray activity, with a flux comparable to the EGRET detection in June 1991. The hard x light curve show a decrease in flux of ∼ 20% during the period of activity in Gamma-ray. İ Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence.
AGILE observation of gamma-ray variability of the bright blazar 3C 273 during the MWL campaign of Dec 2007 - Jan 2008
Rapisarda, M.;Galli, M.
2008-01-01
Abstract
Eight years after the last EGRET observations in gamma-ray, the GRID (30 MeV - 50 GeV) and SuperAGILE (18 - 60 keV) experiments on board the AGILE mission observed the Virgo sky from December 16, 2007 and January 6, 2008. We organized a multi-wavelength campaign for the FSRQ 3C 273 with joint observations from the REM observatory (covering the near-IR and optical), Swift (near-UV and 0.2-10 keV). We report the preliminary results from the campaign. The first week the source was not detectable in Gamma Rays. Then we detected gamma-ray activity, with a flux comparable to the EGRET detection in June 1991. The hard x light curve show a decrease in flux of ∼ 20% during the period of activity in Gamma-ray. İ Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
