Renewed Gamma-Ray Emission from the blazar PKS 1510-089 Detected by AGILE
ATel #9450; P. Munar-Adrover (INAF/IAPS), C. Pittori (ASDC and INAF/OAR), A. Bulgarelli (INAF/IASF-Bo), F. Lucarelli, F. Verrecchia (ASDC and INAF/OAR), G. Piano (INAF/IAPS), V. Fioretti, A. Zoli (INAF/IASF-Bo), M. Tavani (INAF/IAPS, and Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), S. Vercellone (INAF/IASF-Pa), G. Minervini (CIFS and INAF/IAPS), E. Striani (CIFS and INAF/IAPS), M. Cardillo (INAF/OA-Arcetri and INAF/IAPS), F. Gianotti, M. Trifoglio (INAF/IASF-Bo), A. Giuliani, S. Mereghetti, P. Caraveo, F. Perotti (INAF/IASF-Mi), A. Chen (Wits University), A. Argan, E. Costa, E. Del Monte, I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, F. Lazzarotto, I. Lapshov, L. Pacciani, P. Soffitta, S. Sabatini, V. Vittorini (INAF/IAPS), G. Pucella, M. Rapisarda (ENEA-Frascati), G. Di Cocco, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, C. Labanti, M. Marisaldi (INAF/IASF-Bo), A. Pellizzoni, M. Pilia, A. Trois (INAF/OA-Cagliari), G. Barbiellini, E. Vallazza (INFN Trieste), F. Longo (Univ. Trieste and INFN Trieste), A. Morselli, P. Picozza (INFN and Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), M. Prest (Univ. dell'Insubria), P. Lipari, D. Zanello (INFN and Univ. Roma Sapienza), P. W. Cattaneo, A. Rappoldi (INFN Pavia), S. Colafrancesco (INAF/OAR and Wits University), N. Parmiggiani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), A. Ferrari (Univ. Torino and CIFS), A. Antonelli (ASDC and INAF/OAR), P. Giommi (ASDC), L. Salotti, G. Valentini, and F. D'Amico (ASI)
on 4 Sep 2016; 14:05 UT
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Credential Certification: Pere Munar-Adrover (pere.munar@iaps.inaf.it)
Subjects: Gamma Ray, AGN, Black Hole, Blazar, Transient
AGILE is currently detecting enhanced gamma-ray emission above 100 MeV from a source which position is consistent with the blazar PKS 1510-089. (the last activity of this source was reported in ATel #9350).
Integrating from 2016-09-02 01:00 UT to 2016-09-04 01:00 UT, a preliminary maximum likelihood analysis yields a detection above 100 MeV positioned at Galactic coordinates (l,b) = (350.48, 40.76) +/- 0.7 (stat.) +/- 0.1 (syst.). The gamma-ray flux is F =(3.2 +/- 1.0) x 10E-6 ph/cm2/sec with a significance level above 5 sigma.
This measurement was obtained with AGILE observing a large portion of the sky in spinning mode. Multifrequency observations of the source are strongly encouraged.
