TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 28588 SUBJECT: GRB 201009A: AGILE detection of a burst DATE: 20/10/09 10:19:29 GMT FROM: Alessandro Ursi at INAF/IAPS A. Ursi (INAF/IAPS), F. Verrecchia, C. Pittori (SSDC, and INAF/OAR), M. Tavani (INAF/IAPS, and Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), C. Casentini (INAF/IAPS), A. Argan, M. Cardillo, Y. Evangelista, G. Piano (INAF/IAPS), F. Lucarelli (SSDC, and INAF/OAR), A. Bulgarelli, V. Fioretti, F. Fuschino, N. Parmiggiani (INAF/OAS-Bologna), M. Marisaldi (INAF/OAS-Bologna, and Bergen University), M. Pilia, A. Trois (INAF/OA-Cagliari), I. Donnarumma (ASI), F. Longo (Univ. Trieste and INFN Trieste), A. Giuliani (INAF/IASF-Mi), report on behalf of the AGILE Team: A few seconds after emerging from the SAA, the AGILE satellite detected a burst, with a MCAL trigger at T0 = 2020-10-09 03:08:26 (UT). The event is visible in the scientific ratemeters of the SuperAGILE (SA; 18-60 keV), MiniCALorimeter (MCAL; 0.4-100 MeV), and AntiCoincidence (AC; 50-200 keV) detectors. The event lasted about ~6 s and released 1045 counts in the SA detector (above a background rate of 74 Hz), 24910 counts in the MCAL detector (above a background rate of 1176 Hz), and 43490 counts in the AC detector (above a background rate of 3523 Hz). The AGILE RM light curves can be found at: http://www.agilescienceapp.it/notices/GRB201009A_AGILE_RMs.png . The event could have possibly started earlier, as shown in the SuperAGILE light curve. The event also triggered a partial high time resolution MCAL data acquisition. Additional analysis of AGILE data is in progress.