AGILE gamma-ray detection of a variable source in the Musca region

The AGILE satellite, currently in a Cycle-1 pointing centered approximately in the Musca region, during the observing period that started on 2008-02-14 12 00 UT, detected significant and variable gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane from a source positionally consistent with 3EG J1410-6147. The AGILE Quicklook Analysis (AQA) provides the source positional error box that is centered at Galactic coordinates l = 312.2 deg, b = -0.3 deg, and has a AQA radius of about 0.5 degree.