Enhanced gamma-ray emission from the microquasar Cygnus X-3 detected by AGILE
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Date Issued
2016-04-01
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Abstract
Integrating from 2016-04-16 00 00 UT to 2016-04-19 00 00 UT, the AGILE-GRID detector is revealing gamma-ray emission above 100 MeV from a source positionally consistent with Cygnus X-3 at Galactic coordinates (l, b) = (79.4, 0.2) +/- 0.6 (stat.) +/- 0.1 (syst.) deg, with flux F( > 100 MeV) = (2.0 +/- 0.8) x 10^-6 photons/cm^2/s, as determined by a multi-source likelihood analysis.