1. GRB 070724B: the first gamma ray burst localized by SuperAGILE and its Swift X-ray afterglow
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F. Mauri, Marco Feroci, Luigi Pacciani, P. Lipari, M. Galli, Piergiorgio Picozza, Massimo Rapisarda, A. Argan, Andrea Bulgarelli, L. A. Antonelli, Claudio Labanti, Enrico Costa, F. Verrecchia, B. Preger, P. A. Caraveo, Neil Gehrels, V. Vittorini, E. Vallazza, M. Trifoglio, E. Del Monte, C. Pittori, A. Pellizzoni, P. Romano, S. Vercellone, F. Perotti, A. Giuliani, G. Di Cocco, L. Salotti, A. Zambra, J. P. Osborne, David N. Burrows, L. Foggetta, M. Prest, I. Lapshov, Alessio Trois, Paolo Soffitta, M. Basset, Sandro Mereghetti, Francesco Lazzarotto, Y. Evangelista, V. La Parola, Martino Marisaldi, P. T. O'Brien, G. Chincarini, Marco Tavani, I. Donnarumma, A. W. Chen, Fulvio Gianotti, F. Fuschino, A. Morselli, G. Barbiellini, Paolo Giommi, Francesco Longo, G. Pucella, DEL MONTE, E, Feroci, M, Pacciani, L, Evangelista, Y, Donnarumma, I, Soffitta, P, Costa, E, Lapshov, I, Lazzarotto, F, Rapisarda, M, Argan, A, BARBIELLINI AMIDEI, Guido, Basset, M, Bulgarelli, A, Caraveo, P, Chen, A, DI COCCO, G, Foggetta, L, Fuschino, F, Galli, M, Gianotti, F, Giuliani, A, Labanti, C, Lipari, P, Longo, Francesco, Marisaldi, M, Mauri, F, Mereghetti, S, Morselli, A, Pellizzoni, A, Perotti, F, Picozza, P, Prest, M, Pucella, G, Tavani, M, Trifoglio, M, Trois, A, Vallazza, E, Vercellone, S, Vittorini, V, Zambra, A, Romano, P, BURROWS D., N, Chincarini, G, Gehrels, N, LA PAROLA, V, O'BRIEN P., T, OSBORNE J., P, Preger, B, Pittori, C, ANTONELLI L., A, Verrecchia, F, Giommi, P, and Salotti, L.
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Physics ,Swift ,Very large array ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics (astro-ph) ,X-ray ,Gamma ray ,FOS: Physical sciences ,AGILE satellite ,GRB 070724B ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,law.invention ,Afterglow ,Telescope ,Space and Planetary Science ,law ,Gamma-ray burst ,computer ,computer.programming_language - Abstract
GRB 070724B is the first Gamma Ray Burst localized by SuperAGILE, the hard X-ray monitor aboard the AGILE satellite. The coordinates of the event were published $\sim 19$ hours after the trigger. The Swift X-Ray Telescope pointed at the SuperAGILE location and detected the X-ray afterglow inside the SuperAGILE error circle. The AGILE gamma-ray Tracker and Minicalorimeter did not detect any significant gamma ray emission associated with GRB 070724B in the MeV and GeV range, neither prompt nor delayed. Searches of the optical afterglow were performed by the Swift UVOT and the Palomar automated 60-inch telescopes without any significant detection. Similarly the Very Large Array did not detect a radio afterglow. This is the first GRB event with a firm upper limit in the 100 MeV -- 30 GeV energy range, associated with an X-ray afterglow., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures (of which 2 in color), contains online material. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters
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- 2007
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