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The INTEGRAL hard X-ray surveys have proven to be of fundamental importance. INTEGRAL has mapped the Galactic plane with its large field of view and excellent sensitivity. Such hard X-ray snapshots of the whole Milky Way on a time scale of…

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

The SPI instrument has been launched on-board the INTEGRAL observatory on October 17, 2002. SPI is a spectrometer devoted to the sky observation in the 20 keV-8 MeV energy range using 19 germanium detectors. The performance of the cryogenic…

We present the preliminary results of the observational campaign performed in 2003 to study the Galactic Nucleus with INTEGRAL. The mosaicked images obtained with the IBIS/ISGRI coded aperture instrument in the energy range above 20 keV,…

Thanks to its high orbit and a set of complementary detectors providing continuous coverage of the whole sky, the INTEGRAL satellite has unique capabilities for the identification and study of the electromagnetic radiation associated to…

We expect that at least one Gamma-Ray Burst per month will be detected in the field of view of INTEGRAL instruments and localized with an accuracy of a few arcminutes. IBIS (the Imager on board INTEGRAL) will be the most sensitive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gotz , S. Mereghetti

The INTEGRAL satellite explored the gamma-ray sky since its launch on October 17, 2002, and until the end of its scientific operation on February 28, 2025. A large fraction of the available data is still largely untouched, due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Tristan Bouchet , Philippe Laurent , Floriane Cangemi , Jérôme Rodriguez

Thanks to INTEGRAL's long exposures of the Galactic Plane, the two brightest Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters, SGR 1806-20 and SGR 1900+14, have been monitored and studied in detail for the first time at hard-X/soft gamma rays. This has produced a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Gotz , S. Mereghetti , K. Hurley

After almost 5 years of operation, ESA's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) Space Observatory has unveiled a new soft Gamma ray sky and produced a remarkable harvest of results, ranging from identification of new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 P. Ubertini , A. De Rosa , A. Bazzano , L. Bassani , V. Sguera

The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS) has been developed to detect and locate in real time the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) serendipitously observed by INTEGRAL. The IBAS software runs automatically at the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-22 Sandro Mereghetti

ESA's INTEGRAL space mission has achieved unique results for solar and terrestrial physics, although spacecraft operations nominally excluded the possibility to point at the Sun or the Earth. The Earth avoidance was, however, exceptionally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Marc Türler , Vincent Tatischeff , Volker Beckmann , Eugene Churazov

INTEGRAL regularly scans the Galactic plane to search for new objects and in particular for absorbed sources with the bulk of their emission above 10-20 keV. The first new INTEGRAL source was discovered on 2003 January 29, 0.5 degree from…

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

We report here an all-sky soft gamma-ray source catalog based on IBIS observations performed during the first 1000 orbits of INTEGRAL. The database for the construction of the source list consists of all good quality data available from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 A. J. Bird , A. Bazzano , A. Malizia , M. Fiocchi , V. Sguera , L. Bassani , A. B. Hill , P. Ubertini , C. Winkler

The INTEGRAL satellite was launched on October 17, 2002. All on-board instruments are operating successfully. In this paper, we focus on radiation effects on the Cadmium Telluride camera ISGRI. The spectral response of the camera is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnaud Claret , Olivier Limousin , Francis Lugiez , Philippe Laurent , Mathieu Renaud

In this paper we first review the results obtained by the INTEGRAL mission in the domain of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), thanks to the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System, which is able to deliver near real-time alerts for GRBs detected within the IBIS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 D Gotz , C. Gouiffes , J. Rodriguez , P. Laurent , E. Jourdain , J. P. Roques , S. Mereghetti , S. Lutovinonv , V. Savchenko , L. Hanlon , A. Martin-Carrillo , P. Moran

LS I+61303 is one of the few high-mass X-ray binaries that have been recently observed at TeV and GeV energies. Here we investigate the hard X-ray spectral and timing properties of this source using the IBIS/ISGRI instrument on-board the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 Shu Zhang , Diego F. Torres , Jian Li , YuPeng Chen , Nanda Rea , JianMin Wang

Thanks to INTEGRAL's long exposures of the Galactic Plane, the two brightest Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters, SGR 1806-20 and SGR 1900+14, have been monitored and studied in detail for the first time at hard-X/soft-gamma rays. SGR 1806-20, lying…

We used data from the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) to set upper-limits on the ${\gamma}$-ray and hard X-ray prompt emission associated with the gravitational wave event GW170104, discovered by the LIGO/Virgo…

During the first six months of operations, six Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been detected in the field of view of the INTEGRAL instruments and localized by the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS): a software for the automatic search of GRBs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Mereghetti