AGILE Detection of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Microquasar Cygnus X-3

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Piano, G.
Tavani, M.
Bulgarelli, A.
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Date Issued
2016-08-01
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Abstract
The AGILE-GRID detector is revealing gamma-ray emission above 100 MeV from a source positionally consistent with the microquasar Cygnus X-3. Integrating from 2016-08-28 UT 09 00 00 to 2016-08-30 UT 09 00 00 (MJD 57628.375 - 57630.375), a preliminary multi-source likelihood analysis detects a gamma-ray flux F( > 100 MeV) = (4.0 +/- 1.4) x 10^-6 photons/cm^2/s with a significance near 4 sigma.
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