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AGILE is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) space mission devoted to gamma-ray observations
in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy range, with simultaneous X-ray imaging in the 18-60 keV
band. Launched in April 2007, the AGILE satellite, with more than 16 years of observation
in orbit, is substantially contributing to improve our knowledge of the gamma-ray sky.
Thanks to its very fast ground segment alert system, AGILE observations have provided the
fastest response and the most significant upper limits in the energy range above 100 MeV
to the first detected gravitational wave event GW150914 by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration,
and to all other GW events detected up to now, including the famous BNS event GW170817.
AGILE is actively involved in the hunt for high-energy electromagnetic counterparts of GW
during the current LIGO-Virgo-Kagra (LVK) O4 observing run, started in May, 2023.
