Speaker
Description
AGILE has been a unique and successful space mission of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), with the programmatic and technical contribution of INAF and INFN. During almost 17 years of observations in low Earth equatorial orbit (April 23, 2007 - January 18, 2024), AGILE contributed to high-energy astrophysics and terrestrial physics with many discoveries and detections.
The AGILE payload comprises the Silicon Tracker, the SuperAGILE X-ray detector, the Mini-Calorimeter (MCAL), and an AntiCoincidence System (ACS). The ST, MCAL, and ACS combination compose the Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector (GRID).
I will give an overview of the main AGILE scientific results, including some recent updates on the science of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) and the hunt for electromagnetic counterparts to Gravitational Waves (GW) and cosmic neutrinos. With the satellite re-entry the in-orbit phase ends, but a new phase of scientific work on the AGILE legacy data archive opens: AGILE may still hold future surprises.
