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IGR J16493-4348 is a supergiant high mass X-ray binary discovered by INTEGRAL in 2004. The source is detected at a significance level of $\sim21$ standard deviations in the Swift-BAT survey data collected during the first 54 months of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Cusumano , V. La Parola , P. Romano , A. Segreto , S. Vercellone , G. Chincarini

IGR J16195-4945 is a hard X-ray source discovered by INTEGRAL during the Core Program observations performed in 2003. We analyzed the X-ray emission of this source exploiting the Swift-BAT survey data from December 2004 to March 2015, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 G. Cusumano , V. La Parola , A. Segreto , A. D'Aì

We report on the results of a deep 1.6 Ms INTEGRAL observation of the Cassiopeia region performed from December 2003 to February 2004. Eleven sources were detected with the imager IBIS-ISGRI at energies above 20 keV, including three new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. R. den Hartog , W. Hermsen , L. Kuiper , J. Vink , J. J. M. in 't Zand , W. Collmar

We studied spectra for 34 accretion-powered X-ray and one millisecond pulsars that were within the field of view of the INTEGRAL observatory over two years (December 2002 - January 2005) of its in-orbit operation and that were detected by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Filippova , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov , R. A. Sunyaev

Early results from the INTEGRAL Core Program, for a sample of eight persistently bright neutron star low mass X-ray binaries in the energy range from 5 keV to 200 keV are presented. It is shown that INTEGRAL efficiently detects sources and…

Since its launch INTEGRAL has devoted a significant fraction of its observing time to the Galactic plane region. We present the results of INTEGRAL observations of the inner spiral arms of the Galaxy (Norma, Scutum and Sagittarius) with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Lutovinov , M. Revnivtsev , M. Gilfanov , P. Shtykovskiy , S. Molkov , R. Sunyaev

Here, we report on observations of two hard X-ray sources that were originally discovered with the INTEGRAL satellite: IGR J04059+5416 and IGR J08297-4250. We use the Chandra X-ray Observatory to localize the sources and then archival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 John A. Tomsick , Roman Krivonos , Farid Rahoui , Marco Ajello , Jerome Rodriguez , Nicolas Barriere , Arash Bodaghee , Sylvain Chaty

IGR J18179-1621 is a hard X-ray binary transient discovered recently by INTEGRAL. Here we report on detailed timing and spectral analysis on IGR J18179-1621 in X-rays based on available INTEGRAL and Swift data. From the INTEGRAL analysis,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 J. Li , S. Zhang , D. F. Torres , A. Papitto , Y. P. Chen , J. M. Wang

The Gamma-ray instruments on-board INTEGRAL offer an unique opportunity to perform time resolved analysis on GRBs. The imager IBIS allows accurate positiioning of GRBs and broad band spectral analysis, while SPI provides high resolution…

Context. The INTEGRAL observatory operating in a hard X-ray/gamma domain has gathered a large observational data set over nine years starting in 2003. Most of the observing time was dedicated to the Galactic source population study, making…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-18 R. Krivonos , S. Tsygankov , A. Lutovinov , M. Revnivtsev , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev

IGR J17591-2342 is a recently INTEGRAL discovered accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar that went into outburst around July 21, 2018. To better understand the physics acting in these systems during the outburst episode we performed detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 L. Kuiper , S. S. Tsygankov , M. Falanga , I. A. Mereminskij , D. K. Galloway , J. Poutanen , Z. Li

All of the observations performed with the IBIS telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory during the first one and a half years of its in-orbit operation (from February 10, 2003, through July 2, 2004) have been analyzed to find X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. V. Chelovekov , S. A. Grebenev , R. A. Sunyaev

On 2003 September 17 INTEGRAL discovered a bright transient source 3 degrees from the Galactic Center, IGR J17544-2619. The field containing the transient was observed by XMM-Newton on 2003 March 17 and September 11 and 17. A bright source,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Gonzalez-Riestra , T. Oosterbroek , E. Kuulkers , A. Orr , A. N. Parmar

Context: IGRJ11014-6103 is one of the still unidentified hard X-ray INTEGRAL sources, reported for the first time in the 4th IBIS/ISGRI catalog. Aims: We investigated the nature of IGR J11014-6103 by carrying out a multiwavelength analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-20 L. Pavan , E. Bozzo , G. Pühlhofer , C. Ferrigno , M. Balbo , R. Walter

Using the IBIS Compton mode, the INTEGRAL satellite is able to detect and localize bright and hard GRBs, which happen outside of the nominal INTEGRAL telescopes field of view. We have developed a method of analyzing such INTEGRAL data to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Marcinkowski , M. Denis , T. Bulik , P. Goldoni , Ph. Laurent , A. Rau

In this paper we present radio and high energy observations of the INTEGRAL source IGR J21247+5058, a broad line emitting galaxy obscured by the Galactic plane. Archival VLA radio data indicate that IGR J21247+5058 can be classified as an…

We present an analysis of the L 1641 outflow region using broad-band and narrow-band imaging data at mid-infrared wavelengths from ISOCAM. We detect a total of 34 sources in the $7.65^{\prime}$ x $8.40^{\prime}$ region covered by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Babar Ali , Alberto Noriega-Crespo

We derive the spectra of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) and of the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) in the ~20-200 keV range from the data of the IBIS instrument aboard the INTEGRAL satellite obtained during the four dedicated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Turler , M. Chernyakova , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , P. Lubinski , A. Neronov , N. Produit , R. Walter

The pulsar IGR J16393-4643 belongs to a class of highly absorbed supergiant HMXBs, characterised by very high column density of absorbing matter. We present the results of the simultaneous broad-band pulsation and spectrum analysis, from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-06 Nazma Islam , Chandreyee Maitra , Pragati Pradhan , Biswajit Paul

We report on high energy observations of IGR J19140+0951 performed with RXTE on three occasions in 2002, 2003 and 2004, and INTEGRAL during a very well sampled and unprecedented high energy coverage of this source from early-March to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Rodriguez , C. Cabanac , D. C. Hannikainen , V. Beckmann , S. E. Shaw , J. Schultz