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We describe the INTEGRAL reference catalog which classifies previously known bright X-ray and gamma-ray sources before the launch of INTEGRAL. These sources are, or have been at least once, brighter than ~1 mCrab above 3 keV, and are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Ebisawa , G. Bourban , A. Bodaghee , N. Mowlavi , T. J. -L. Courvoisier

The Galactic bulge region is a rich host of variable high-energy point sources. Since 2005, February 17 we are monitoring the source activity in this region about every three days with INTEGRAL. Thanks to the large field of view, the…

(abridged) Hard X-ray surveys performed by the INTEGRAL satellite have discovered a conspicuous fraction (up to 30%) of unidentified objects among the detected sources. Here we continue our identification program by selecting probable…

This paper is the second in a series devoted to the hard X-ray (17-60 keV) whole sky survey performed by the INTEGRAL observatory over seven years. Here we present a catalog of detected sources which includes 521 objects, 449 of which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 R. Krivonos , S. Tsygankov , M. Revnivtsev , S. Grebenev , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev

The INTEGRAL satellite has been observing the gamma-ray sky for 15 years and has detected over 900 X-ray sources of various nature. However, more than 200 of these sources still lack precise identification. Our goal is to reveal the nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Francis Fortin , Sylvain Chaty , Alexis Coleiro , John Tomsick , Christian Nitschelm

The Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) onboard INTEGRAL provides photometry in the Johnson V-band. With an aperture of 50 mm and a field of view of 5deg x 5deg, OMC is able to detect optical sources brighter than V~18, from a previously…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Alfonso-Garzón , A. Domingo , J. M. Mas-Hesse , A. Giménez

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Preliminary Data Release Source Catalog contains over 257 million objects. We describe the method used to flag variable source candidates in the Catalog. Using a method based on the chi- square of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-28 Douglas I. Hoffman , R. M. Cutri , F. J. Masci , J. W. Fowler , K. A. Marsh , T. H. Jarrett

Abridged : The various IBIS/ISGRI catalogues contain a large population of hard X-ray sources whose nature is still unknown. Even if the $>20$ keV positional uncertainty provided by ISGRI is unprecedented, it is still too large to pinpoint…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Jerome Rodriguez , John A. Tomsick , Arash Bodaghee

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) has been surveying more than $70\%$ of the celestial sphere for nearly a decade. While the primary science goal of the survey is the discovery of transiting, large-radii planets around bright…

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has obtained multi-epoch observations providing the opportunity for a comprehensive variability search aiming to uncover new variables. We have therefore undertaken the task of creating a catalog of variable…

We report on 0.3-10 keV X-ray observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the fields of 22 sources that were discovered as hard X-ray (20-100 keV) sources by the INTEGRAL satellite (IGR sources). The purpose of the Chandra observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 John A. Tomsick , Sylvain Chaty , Jerome Rodriguez , Roland Walter , Philip Kaaret

In this study we attempt to assess the possibility of detection of variable sources using the data of the 7.6-cm wavelength surveys carried out on the RATAN-600 radio telescope in the period from 1980 through 1994. Objects selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-15 E. K. Majorova , O. P. Zhelenkova

We demonstrate two new approaches that have been developed to aid the production of future hard X-ray catalogs, and specifically to reduce the reliance on human intervention during the detection of faint excesses in maps that also contain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 V. A. Lepingwell , A. J. Bird , S. R. Gunn

INTEGRAL is the first gamma-ray astronomy mission with a sufficient sensitivity and angular resolution combination appropriate to the detection and identification of considerable numbers of gamma-ray emitting sources. The large field of…

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

Variable sources probe a wide range of astrophysical phenomena. We present a catalog of over ten million variable source candidates found in Data Release 1 (DR1) of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). We perform a periodicity search up to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Eran O. Ofek , Maayane Soumagnac , Guy Nir , Avishay Gal-Yam , Peter Nugent , Frank Masci , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

We present a list of 552 sources with suspected variability, based on a comparison of mid-infrared photometry from the GLIMPSE I and MSX surveys, which were carried out nearly a decade apart. We were careful to address issues such as the…

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

The most recent all-sky surveys performed with the INTEGRAL and SWIFT satellites allowed the detection of more than 1500 sources in hard X-rays above 20 keV. About one quarter of them has no obvious counterpart at other wavelengths and…

Using 8 telescopes in the northern and southern hemispheres, plus archival data from two on-line sky surveys, we performed a systematic optical spectroscopic study of 39 putative counterparts of unidentified or poorly studied INTEGRAL…

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