AGILE detection of enhanced gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula region
ATel #2855; M. Tavani (INAF/IASF Roma), E. Striani (Univ. Tor Vergata), A. Bulgarelli (INAF/IASF Bologna), F. Gianotti, M. Trifoglio (INAF/IASF Bologna), C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia (ASDC), A. Argan, A. Trois, G. De Paris, V. Vittorini, F. D'Ammando, S. Sabatini, G. Piano, E. Costa, I. Donnarumma, M. Feroci, L. Pacciani, E. Del Monte, F. Lazzarotto, P. Soffitta, Y. Evangelista, I. Lapshov (INAF-IASF-Rm), A. Chen, A. Giuliani(INAF-IASF-Milano), M. Marisaldi, G. Di Cocco, C. Labanti, F. Fuschino, M. Galli (INAF/IASF Bologna), P. Caraveo, S. Mereghetti, F. Perotti (INAF/IASF Milano), G. Pucella, M. Rapisarda (ENEA-Roma), S. Vercellone (IASF-Pa), A. Pellizzoni, M. Pilia (INAF/OA-Cagliari), G. Barbiellini, F. Longo (INFN Trieste), P. Picozza, A. Morselli (INFN and Univ. Tor Vergata), M. Prest (Universita` dell'Insubria), P. Lipari, D. Zanello (INFN Roma-1), P. W. Cattaneo, A. Rappoldi (INFN Pavia), P. Giommi, P. Santolamazza, F. Lucarelli, S. Colafrancesco (ASDC), L. Salotti (ASI)
on 22 Sep 2010; 14:45 UT
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Referred to by ATel #: 2856, 2858, 2861, 2866, 2867, 2868, 2872, 2879, 2882, 2889, 2893, 2903, 2921, 2967, 2968, 2994, 3058, 3276, 3283, 4239, 8544
AGILE is detecting an increased gamma-ray flux from a
source positionally consistent with the Crab Nebula.
Integrating during the period 2010-09-19 00:10 UT to 2010-09-21 00:10 UT
the AGILE-GRID detected enhanced gamma-ray emission
above 100 MeV from a source at Galactic coordinates
(l,b) = (184.6, -6.0) +/- 0.4 (stat.) +/- 0.1 (syst.) deg, and
flux F > 500 e-8 ph/cm2/sec above 100 MeV, corresponding to an
excess with significance above 4.4 sigma with respect to the
average flux from the Crab nebula (F = (220 +/- 15)e-8 ph/cm^2/sec,
Pittori et al., 2009, A&A, 506, 1563).
We strongly encourage multifrequency observations of the Crab Nebula
region.