M. Mastropietro

TL;DR: The Astropy project as discussed by the authors is an open-source and openly developed Python packages that provide commonly-needed functionality to the astronomical community, including the core package Astropy, which serves as the foundation for more specialized projects and packages.

TL;DR: AGILE as mentioned in this paper is an Italian Space Agency mission dedicated to observing the gamma-ray universe, which was successfully launched on 2007 April 23 from the Indian base of Sriharikota and was inserted in an equatorial orbit with very low particle background.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported four γ-ray flares with energies above 100 MeV from the microquasar Cygnus X-3 (an exceptional X-ray binary that sporadically produces radio jets).

TL;DR: The Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT) was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) Cosmic Vision Theme "Matter under extreme conditions", namely: does matter orbiting close to the event horizon follow the predictions of general relativity? What is the equation of state of matter in neutron stars? LOFT, selected by ESA as one of the four Cosmic Vision M3 candidate missions to undergo an assessment phase, will revolutionise the study of collapsed objects in our galaxy and of the brightest supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei.

TL;DR: SuperAGILE as discussed by the authors is a coded mask experiment based on silicon microstrip detectors, which operates in the 15-45-keV nominal energy range, providing crossed one-dimensional images of the X-ray sky with an on-axis angular resolution of 6-arcmin, over a field of view in excess of 1-sr.