The MCAL science console software for the minicalorimeter of the AGILE mission

Bulgarelli, A.; Gianotti, F.; Trifoglio, M.; Labanti, C.; Celesti, E.

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“…Further improvements have been implemented for the QL version exploited in the Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) to support all the AGILE AIV activities carried out at payload and satellite levels, included the launch campaign, and during the in-orbit commissioning, as reported in [9]. Details on the QL framework architecture are given in [10].…”

Section: A the Pil Health Monitoring Pipelinementioning

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AGILE WebMon: Monitoring the AGILE payload through the WEB

Bulgarelli

Trifoglio

Gianotti

et al. 2008

2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

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AGILE AGILE is a Scientific Mission dedicated to high-energy astrophysics supported by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) with scientific participation of INAF and INFN. The AGILE Payload (PIL) is designed to detect and image photons in the 30MeV-50GeV and 15-45 keV energy bands. It was successfully launched on 23 April 2007. AGILE WebMon is a set of software tools developed by the AGILE team in order to access at any time and worldwide the sensible data related to the PIL instrument health and science monitoring. Moreover, the system is used as test bed for some of the software modules developed and maintained by the AGILE Team for the standard and scientific analysis system running at the ASI Science Data Centre in Frascati, which hosts the AGILE Data Center.

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Section: A the Pil Health Monitoring Pipelinementioning

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AGILE WebMon: Monitoring the AGILE payload through the WEB

Bulgarelli

Trifoglio

Gianotti

et al. 2008

2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

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“…9 We have decided to develop a stand-alone software due to some constraints and requirements of the AGILE project. First of all, our main task was to analyze the scientific telemetry of the payload; this has required a high level of specialization of our software, due to the unique characteristics of the AGILE Data handling and of the P/L, and as we have not found such a specialized software available "off-the-shelf".…”

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The AIV quick look and health monitoring system of the AGILE payload

Bulgarelli

Gianotti

Trifoglio

et al. 2008

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray

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AGILE is an ASI (Italian Space Agency) Small Scientific Mission dedicated to high-energy astrophysics which was launched on April 23 2007 from Satish Dawan Space Centre (India) on a PSLV-C8 rocket. The AGILE Payload is composed of three instruments: a Tungsten-Silicon Tracker designed to detect and image photons in the 30 MeV-50 GeV energy band, an X-ray imager called SuperAGILE that works in the 18-60 keV energy band, and a Minicalorimeter that detects gamma-rays or particle energy deposits between 300 keV and 200 MeV. The instrument is surrounded by an anti-coincidence (AC) system. We have developed a set of Quick Look software tools in the framework of the Test Equipment (TE) and the Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE. This s/w is required in order to support all the assembly, integration and verification (AIV) activities to be carried out for the AGILE mission, from data handling unit level to payload integrated level, calibration campaign, launch campaign and in-orbit commissioning. These software tools have enabled us to test the engineering performance and to perform a health check of the Payload during the various phases. We have used an incremental development approach and a common framework to rapidly adapt our software to the different requirements of the various phases.

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“…This reduces the task running-time and can improve the precision of the results (see Bulgarelli et al 2012b). For the same reason, we also fixed the spectral indices to −2.1 for all sources except for the five well-known bright pulsars Geminga, Crab, Vela, 1AGL J1709-4428, and 1AGLR J2021+3653 (fixed to −1.66, −2.2, −1.69, −1.86 and −1.86, from 3EG; Hartman et al 1999;Chen et al 2012), for 1AGLR J0007+7307, 1AGLR J2031+4130 and 1AGL J1836+5923 (fixed to −1.85, −1.84 and −1.65, from 3EG and Bulgarelli et al 2008Bulgarelli et al , 2012a, for the high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) LS I +61 • 303 and Cyg X-3 (fixed to −2.21 and −2.0 from 3EG and Bulgarelli et al 2012a) and the supernova remnants (SNRs) W28, IC443 and W44 (fixed to −1.8, −2.01 and −1.93 from Giuliani et al 2010, and 3EG respectively). These values are compatible with the 2FGL ones at the AGILE spectral resolution.…”

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An updated list of AGILE brightγ-ray sources and their variability in pointing mode

Verrecchia

Pittori

Chen

et al. 2013

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Aims. We present a variability study of a sample of bright γ-ray (30 Mev−50 Gev) sources. This sample is an extension of the first AGILE catalogue of γ-ray sources (1AGL), obtained using the complete set of AGILE observations in pointing mode performed during a 2.3 year period from July 9, 2007 until October 30, 2009. Methods. The dataset of AGILE pointed observations covers a long time interval and its γ-ray data archive is useful for monitoring studies of medium-to-high brightness γ-ray sources. In the analysis reported here, we used data obtained with an improved event filter that covers a wider field of view, on a much larger (about 27.5 months) dataset, integrating data on observation block time scales, which mostly range from a few days to thirty days. Results. The data processing resulted in a better characterized source list than 1AGL was, and includes 54 sources, 7 of which are new high galactic latitude (|BII| ≥ 5) sources, 8 are new sources on the galactic plane, and 20 sources from the previous catalogue with revised positions. Eight 1AGL sources (2 high-latitude and 6 on the galactic plane) were not detected in the final processing either because of low OB exposure and/or due to their position in complex galactic regions. We report the results in a catalogue of all the detections obtained in each single OB, including the variability results for each of these sources. In particular, we found that 12 sources out of 42 or 11 out of 53 are variable, depending on the variability index used, where 42 and 53 are the number of sources for which these indices could be calculated. Seven of the 11 variable sources are blazars, the others are Crab pulsar+nebula, LS I +61 • 303, Cyg X-3, and 1AGLR J2021+4030.

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The MCAL science console software for the minicalorimeter of the AGILE mission

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AGILE WebMon: Monitoring the AGILE payload through the WEB

AGILE WebMon: Monitoring the AGILE payload through the WEB

The AIV quick look and health monitoring system of the AGILE payload

An updated list of AGILE brightγ-ray sources and their variability in pointing mode

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