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The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellite has detected in excess of 1000 sources in the ~20-100 keV band during its surveys of the sky over the past 17 years. We obtained 5 ks observations of 15 unclassified…

Hard X-ray imaging of the Galactic plane by the INTEGRAL satellite is uncovering large numbers of 20-100 keV "IGR" sources. We present results from Chandra, INTEGRAL, optical, and IR observations of 4 IGR sources: 3 sources in the Norma…

We report on the results of observations of hard X-ray sources in the Galactic plane with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The hard X-ray IGR sources were discovered by the INTEGRAL satellite, and the goals of the Chandra observations are to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John A. Tomsick , Sylvain Chaty , Jerome Rodriguez , Roland Walter , Philip Kaaret

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

Here we report on X-ray observations of ten 17-60 keV sources discovered by the INTEGRAL satellite. The primary new information is sub-arcsecond positions obtained by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In six cases (IGR J17040-4305, IGR…

We report on 0.3-10 keV observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of eight hard X-ray sources discovered within 8 degrees of the Galactic plane by the INTEGRAL satellite. The short (5 ks) Chandra observations of the IGR source fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-13 John A. Tomsick , Roman Krivonos , Qinan Wang , Arash Bodaghee , Sylvain Chaty , Farid Rahoui , Jerome Rodriguez , Francesca M. Fornasini

We report the results of identification of 8 hard X-ray sources discovered by the INTEGRAL observatory during the ongoing all-sky survey. These sources have been observed by Chandra. In 6 cases a bright X-ray source was found within the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-23 S. Sazonov , E. Churazov , M. Revnivtsev , A. Vikhlinin , R. Sunyaev

We observed 7 INTEGRAL sources with the Chandra X-ray Observatory to refine their localization to ~2 arcsec and to study their X-ray spectra. Two sources are inferred to have a Galactic origin: IGR J08390-4833 is most likely a magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Sazonov , M. Revnivtsev , R. Burenin , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev , W. R. Forman , S. S. Murray

The IBIS imager on board INTEGRAL, with a sensitivity better than a mCrab in deep observations and a point source location accuracy of the order of few arcminutes, has localized so far 723 hard X-ray sources in the 17--100 keV energy band,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Fiocchi , L. Bassani , A. Bazzano , P. Ubertini , R. Landi , F. Capitanio , A. J. Bird

The INTEGRAL observatory has discovered a variety of hard X-ray sources in the Galactic plane since its launch. Using GMRT, we have made repeated observations of these sources to search for the radio counterparts of seventeen of them at low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Pandey , R. K. Manchanda , A. P. Rao , P. Durouchoux , Ishwara-Chandra

We present the results of Chandra and XMM-Newton observations for six hard X-ray sources (IGR J12134-6015, IGR J18293-1213, IGR J18219-1347, IGR J17350-2045, IGR J18048-1455, XTE J1901+014) from the INTEGRAL all-sky survey. Based on these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 D. I. Karasev , A. A. Lutovinov , M. G. Revnivtsev , R. A. Krivonos

We investigate a sample of eleven Galactic X-ray sources recently discovered with INTEGRAL or RXTE with the goal of identifying their optical and/or near-infrared (NIR) counterpart. For this purpose new Chandra positions of nine objects are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 E. M. Ratti , C. G. Bassa , M. A. P. Torres , L. Kuiper , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , P. G. Jonker

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

(Abridged) We made use of X-ray observations with the X-ray telescope on-board the \swift observatory to refine the X-ray position to 3-5" accuracy of 12 INTEGRAL sources, so as to further identify their counterpart at optical, infrared,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Rodriguez , J. A. Tomsick , S. Chaty

A number of new X-ray sources (IGR J17091-3624, IGR/XTE J17391-3021, IGR J17464-3213 (= XTE J17464-3213 = H 1743-322), IGR J17597-2201, SAX/IGR J18027-2017) have been observed with the INTEGRAL observatory during ultra deep exposure of the…

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

The third INTEGRAL/IBIS survey has revealed several new hard X-ray sources, which are still unclassified. To identify these sources, we need to find their counterparts at other wavelengths and then study their nature. The capability of XRT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Landi , J. B. Stephen , N. Masetti , D. Grupe , F. Capitanio , A. J. Bird , A. J. Dean , M. Fiocchi , N. Gehrels

This letter presents the first results of an observational campaign to study the Galactic Centre with INTEGRAL. The mosaicked images obtained with the IBIS/ISGRI coded aperture instrument in the energy ranges 20-40 and 40-100 keV, give a…

Within the framework of our program of assessment of the nature of unidentified or poorly known INTEGRAL sources, we present here spectroscopy of optical objects, selected through positional cross-correlation with soft X-ray detections…

The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is discovering hundreds of new hard X-ray sources, many of which remain unidentified. We report on optical spectroscopy of five such sources for which X-ray observations at…

(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…

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