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The INTEGRAL mission provides a large data set for studying the hard X-ray properties of AGN and allows testing of the unified scheme for AGN. We present analysis of INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI, JEM-X, and OMC data for 199 AGN supposedly detected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 V. Beckmann , S. Soldi , C. Ricci , J. Alfonso-Garzón , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , A. Domingo , N. Gehrels , P. Lubinski , J. M. Mas-Hesse , A. A. Zdziarski

We present the results of our optical identifications of several hard X-ray sources from the INTEGRAL all-sky survey obtained over 14 years of observations. Having improved the positions of these objects in the sky with the X-ray telescope…

Since the launch of INTEGRAL in 2002, about 300 new sources have been discovered. Understanding the nature of these objects is of prime importance for many aspects of astrophysics, such as the evolution of stars, population of sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-29 Jerome Rodriguez , Arash Bodaghee , John A. Tomsick

Analysis of INTEGRAL Core Program and public Open Time observations performed up to April 2005 provides a sample of 62 active galactic nuclei in the 20-100 keV band above a flux limit of ~1.5x10^-11 erg/cm2/s. Most(42) of the sources in the…

Since its launch on October 2002, the INTEGRAL satellite has revolutionized our knowledge of the hard X-ray sky thanks to its unprecedented imaging capabilities and source detection positional accuracy above 20 keV. Nevertheless, many of…

The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), launched in 2002, continues its successful work in observing the sky at energies E>20 keV. The legacy of the mission already includes a large number of discovered or previously…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-14 Roman Krivonos , Sergey Sazonov , Ekaterina Kuznetsova , Alexander Lutovinov , Ilya Mereminskiy , Sergey Tsygankov

Since its launch on October 2002 the INTEGRAL satellite is performing an deep survey of the hard X-ray sky with unprecedented sensitivity and positional accuracy. This allowed pinpointing, through positional cross-correlation with catalogs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nicola Masetti

The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) continues to successfully work in orbit after its launch in 2002. The mission provides the deepest ever survey of hard X-ray sources throughout the Galaxy at energies above 20…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Roman Krivonos , Sergey Tsygankov , Ilya Mereminskiy , Alexander Lutovinov , Sergey Sazonov , Rashid Sunyaev

We present results of all sky survey, performed with data acquired by the IBIS telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory over eleven years of operation, at energies above 100 keV. A catalogue of detected sources includes 132 objects. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Roman A. Krivonos , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Alexander A. Lutovinov , Mikhail G. Revnivtsev , Eugene M. Churazov , Rashid A. Sunyaev

Thanks to the INTEGRAL satellite the way of looking at the hard X-ray sky above 20 keV has changed substantially. Through the unique imaging and spectroscopy capabilities of the IBIS instrument that has formed the basis of the INTEGRAL…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. Parisi , N. Masetti

We present the first INTEGRAL AGN catalog, based on observations performed from launch of the mission in October 2002 until January 2004. The catalog includes 42 AGN, of which 10 are Seyfert 1, 17 are Seyfert 2, and 9 are intermediate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Beckmann , N. Gehrels , C. R. Shrader , S. Soldi

We present results of deep surveys of three extragalactic fields, M81 (exposure of 9.7 Ms), LMC (6.8 Ms) and 3C 273/Coma (9.3 Ms), in the hard X-ray (17-60 keV) energy band with the IBIS telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory, based on…

Hard X-ray surveys like those provided by IBIS and BAT on board the INTEGRAL and Swift satellites list a significant number of sources which are unidentified and/or unclassified and which deserve multiwaveband observations to be properly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Pietro Parisi

Since it started observing the sky, the INTEGRAL satellite has revealed new categories of High Mass X-ray binaries in our Galaxy. These observations raise important questions on the formation and evolution of such rare and short-living…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-18 A. Coleiro , S. Chaty , J. A. Zurita Heras , F. Rahoui , J. A. Tomsick

Since it started observing the sky, the INTEGRAL satellite has discovered new categories of high mass X-ray binaries (HMXB) in our Galaxy. These observations raise important questions on the formation and evolution of these rare and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexis Coleiro , Sylvain Chaty , Juan A. Zurita Heras , Farid Rahoui , John A. Tomsick

The results of an optical spectroscopy campaign performed at the Astronomical Observatory of Bologna in Loiano (Italy) on three hard X-ray sources detected by INTEGRAL (IGR J17303-0601, IGR J18027-1455 and IGR J21247+5058) are presented.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Masetti , E. Palazzi , L. Bassani , A. Malizia , J. B. Stephen

The nature of a substantial percentage (about one fifth) of hard X-ray sources discovered with the BAT instrument onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (hereafter Swift) is unknown because of the lack of an identified longer-wavelength…

In the most recent IBIS survey based on observations performed during the first 1000 orbits of INTEGRAL, are listed 363 high energy emitters firmly associated with AGN, 107 of which are reported here for the first time. We have used X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Malizia , R. Landi , M. Molina , L. Bassani , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , P. Ubertini

We present results based on the first INTEGRAL AGN catalogue. The catalogue includes 42 AGN, of which 10 are Seyfert 1, 17 are Seyfert 2, and 9 are intermediate Seyfert 1.5. The fraction of blazars is rather small with 5 detected objects,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Beckmann , S. Soldi , C. R. Shrader , N. Gehrels

The ROSAT Bright Survey (RBS) aims to completely optically identify the more than 2000 brightest sources detected in the ROSAT all-sky survey at galactic latitudes |b| > 30 degr (excluding LMC, SMC, Virgo cluster). This paper presents a…