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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

ESA's hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray observatory INTEGRAL is covering the 3 keV to 10 MeV energy band, with excellent sensitivity during long and uninterrupted observations of a large field of view (~100 square degrees), with ms time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-31 Christoph Winkler , Roland Diehl , Pietro Ubertini , Jörn Wilms

ESA's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) was launched on 17 Oct 2002 at 06:41 CEST. Since then, it has been providing long, uninterrupted observations (up to about 47 hr, or 170 ksec, per satellite orbit of 2.7 days)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-24 Erik Kuulkers , Carlo Ferrigno , Peter Kretschmar , Julia Alfonso-Garzon , Marius Baab , Angela Bazzano , Guillaume Belanger , Ian Benson , Anthony J. Bird , Enrico Bozzo , Soren Brandt , Elliott Coe , Isabel Caballero , Floriane Cangemi , Jerome Chenevez , Bradley Cenko , Nebil Cinar , Alexis Coleiro , Stefano De Padova , Roland Diehl , Claudia Dietze , Albert Domingo , Mark Drapes , Eleonora D'uva , Matthias Ehle , Jacobo Ebrero , Mithrajith Edirimanne , Natan A. Eismont , Timothy Finn , Mariateresa Fiocchi , Elena Garcia Tomas , Gianluca Gaudenzi , Thomas Godard , Andrea Goldwurm , Diego Gotz , Christian Gouiffes , Sergei A. Grebenev , Jochen Greiner , Aleksandra Gros , Lorraine Hanlon , Wim Hermsen , Cristina Hernandez , Margarita Hernanz , Jutta Huebner , Elisabeth Jourdain , Giovanni La Rosa , Claudio Labanti , Philippe Laurent , Alexander Lehanka , Niels Lund , James Madison , Julien Malzac , Jim Martin , J. Miguel Mas-Hesse , Brian McBreen , Alastair McDonald , Julie McEnery , Sandro Mereghetti , Lorenzo Natalucci , Jan-Uwe Ness , Carol Anne Oxborrow , John Palmer , Sibylle Peschke , Francesco Petrucciani , Norbert Pfeil , Michael Reichenbaecher , James Rodi , Jerome Rodriguez , Jean-Pierre Roques , Emilio Salazar Donate , Dave Salt , Celia Sanchez-Fernandez , Aymeric Sauvageon , Volodymyr Savchenko , Sergey Yu. Sazonov , Stefano Scaglioni , Norbert Schartel , Thomas Siegert , Richard Southworth , Rashid A. Sunyaev , Liviu Toma , Pietro Ubertini , Ed P. J. van den Heuvel , Andreas von Kienlin , Nikolai von Krusenstiern , Christoph Winkler , Hajdas Wojciech , Ugo Zannoni

The imaging instruments on board INTEGRAL have wide fields of view and high time resolution. Therefore, they are ideal instruments to search for pulsating sources and/or transient events. We are systematically searching for pulsations and…

Access to astronomical data through archives and VO is essential but does not solve all problems. Availability of appropriate software for analyzing the data is often equally important for the efficiency with which a researcher can publish…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-27 P. Grosbol , D. Tody

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…

Seven years of successful observations of the sky have been completed within the INTEGRAL mission, in the transition regime between X-rays and gamma-rays from ~10-8000 keV. Initially-agreed mission goals have been pursued, and both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-10 Roland Diehl

We developed a Python based framework for astronomical image processing and analysis. Astronomical image loading, normalizing, stacking, and filtering processes represent visible range images from grayscale. Besides, the blending process…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Tanmoy Bhowmik , MD Fardin Islam , Kazi Nusrat Tasneem , Rantideb Roy , Rownok Shahariar

With the application of advanced astronomical technologies, equipments and methods all over the world, astronomy covers from radio, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma ray band, and enters into the era of full wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Bo Han , Yanxia Zhang , Shoubo Zhong , Yongheng Zhao

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 International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is dedicated to the fine spectroscopy (Delta-E: 2 keV FWHM @ 1.3 MeV) and fine imaging (angular resolution: 12 arcmin FWHM) of celestial gamma-ray sources in the energy range 15…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Winkler

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…

We explore how astronomers take observational data from telescopes, process them into usable scientific data products, curate them for later use, and reuse data for further inquiry. Astronomers have invested heavily in knowledge…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-07 Christine L. Borgman , Morgan F. Wofford

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

Open Universe for blazars is a set of high-transparency data products for blazar science, and the tools designed to generate them. Blazar astrophysics is becoming increasingly data driven, depending on the integration and combined analysis…

The rapid growth of imaging and spectroscopic surveys has intensified the need for efficient tools that support visual inspection, a practice that remains essential for tasks such as classification, catalog refinement, and validation of…

With the INTEGRAL observatory, ESA has provided a unique tool to the astronomical community revealing hundreds of sources, new classes of objects, extraordinary views of antimatter annihilation in our Galaxy, and fingerprints of recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jürgen KnÖdlseder

With the launch of ESA's INTEGRAL satellite in october 2002, a gamma-ray observatory will be placed in orbit providing a multiwavelength coverage from a few keV up to 10 MeV for the study of high energy phenomena in the universe. Among the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jurgen Knodlseder

The INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC) provides the INTEGRAL data and means to analyse them to the scientific community. The ISDC runs a gamma ray burst alert system that provides the position of gamma ray bursts on the sky within seconds…