AGILE detection of increasing gamma-ray activity from the Blazar 3C 454.3
Date Issued
2016-06-01
Mission(s)
Abstract
The AGILE satellite is detecting an enhancement of gamma-ray emission above 100 MeV from the FSRQ 3C 454.3. Integrating from 2016-06-11 01 00 UT to 2016-06-15 01 00 UT, a maximum likelihood analysis yields the detection of the source with a flux of (2.7 +/- 0.7) x 10^-6 ph/cm2/s (E > 100 MeV), at a significance level above 5 sigma.