%0 Journal Article %1 Marisaldi2009 %A Marisaldi, M. %A D'Ammando, F. %A Vercellone, S. %A Donnarumma, I. %A Bulgarelli, A. %A Chen, A. W. %A Giuliani, A. %A Longo, F. %A Pacciani, L. %A Pucella, G. %A Tavani, M. %A Vittorini, V. %D 2009 %K AGILE blazar %T AGILE and blazar studies %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1451 %X During the first two years of observation, AGILE detected several blazars at high significance: 3C 279, 3C 454.3, PKS 1510-089, S5 0716+714, 3C 273, W Comae, Mrk 421 and PKS 0537-441. We obtained long-term coverage of 3C 454.3, for a total of more than three months at energies above 100 MeV. 3C 273 was the first blazar detected simultaneously by the AGILE gamma-ray detector and by its hard X-ray monitor. S5 0716+714, an intermediate BL Lac object, exhibited a very fast and intense gamma-ray transient during an optical high-state phase, challenging the current theoretical models for energy extraction from a rotating black hole, while W Comae and Mkn 421 were detected during an AGILE Target of Opportunity (ToO) repointing, and were simultaneously detected by Cherenkov telescopes. Thanks to the rapid dissemination of our alerts, we were able to obtain multi-wavelength ToO data from other observatories such as Spitzer, Swift, RXTE, Suzaku, INTEGRAL, MAGIC, VERITAS, as well as radio-to-optical coverage by means of the WEBT Consortium and REM, allowing us to study truly simultaneous spectral energy distributions from the radio to the TeV energy band.

@article{Marisaldi2009, abstract = { During the first two years of observation, AGILE detected several blazars at high significance: 3C 279, 3C 454.3, PKS 1510-089, S5 0716+714, 3C 273, W Comae, Mrk 421 and PKS 0537-441. We obtained long-term coverage of 3C 454.3, for a total of more than three months at energies above 100 MeV. 3C 273 was the first blazar detected simultaneously by the AGILE gamma-ray detector and by its hard X-ray monitor. S5 0716+714, an intermediate BL Lac object, exhibited a very fast and intense gamma-ray transient during an optical high-state phase, challenging the current theoretical models for energy extraction from a rotating black hole, while W Comae and Mkn 421 were detected during an AGILE Target of Opportunity (ToO) repointing, and were simultaneously detected by Cherenkov telescopes. Thanks to the rapid dissemination of our alerts, we were able to obtain multi-wavelength ToO data from other observatories such as Spitzer, Swift, RXTE, Suzaku, INTEGRAL, MAGIC, VERITAS, as well as radio-to-optical coverage by means of the WEBT Consortium and REM, allowing us to study truly simultaneous spectral energy distributions from the radio to the TeV energy band. }, added-at = {2009-06-13T03:02:36.000+0200}, author = {Marisaldi, M. and D'Ammando, F. and Vercellone, S. and Donnarumma, I. and Bulgarelli, A. and Chen, A. W. and Giuliani, A. and Longo, F. and Pacciani, L. and Pucella, G. and Tavani, M. and Vittorini, V.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26c69fd715b4cf355a43454aaef3fda73/astravinsky}, description = {AGILE and blazar studies}, interhash = {bb138066868f6dc88b5c817c82977b1b}, intrahash = {6c69fd715b4cf355a43454aaef3fda73}, keywords = {AGILE blazar}, note = {cite arxiv:0906.1451 Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, conference proceedings of the ICRC 2009}, timestamp = {2009-06-13T03:02:36.000+0200}, title = {AGILE and blazar studies}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1451}, year = 2009 }