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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 319, 2025
RICAP-24, 9th Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics
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| Article Number | 06006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Parallel Session: Searches for Extragalactic Astrophysical Sources | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202531906006 | |
| Published online | 06 March 2025 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202531906006
AGILE observations of the ultra-luminous GRB 221009A
1 INAF-IAPS Roma, via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Roma, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Roma, Italy
* e-mail: giovanni.piano@inaf.it
Published online: 6 March 2025
The ultra-luminous, long-duration transient event GRB 221009A was detected by several observatories - as the most luminous gamma-ray burst ever observed - from radio to VHE gamma rays, up to tens of TeV. AGILE detected an extraordinary incoming flux of hard X-ray and high-energy gammaray photons during this unprecedented event. The high-energy emission (from tens of keV up to GeV energies) has been recorded by the AGILE detectors with an almost-continuous time coverage, monitoring the transition between the prompt and the afterglow phase, up to ~20 ks after the onset of the GRB. AGILE time-resolved spectra and light curves are presented in a multi-frequency context, focused on the observed high-energy component of this intense GRB. The AGILE simultaneous hard-X/gamma-ray observations during the key phases of the burst will be crucial to give robust constraints to the physical evolution of the GRB’s high-energy emission.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2025
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