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Blazars exhibit flux and spectral variations of largest amplitude at the highest frequencies. Therefore, monitoring their variability at X- and gamma-rays is the most effective tool to peer into the mighty powerhouse of these sources. High…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena Pian

INTEGRAL has made a very significant contribution to our understanding of the physics of AGN. We illustrate this progress by looking at the considerations that were made at the time of the selection of the INTEGRAL mission and discussing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-14 Thierry J. -L. Courvoisier

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

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

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

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

We present the international collaboration MINE (Multi-lambda Integral NEtwork) aimed at conducting multi-wavelength observations of X-ray binaries and microquasars simultaneously with the INTEGRAL gamma-ray satellite. We will focus on the…

A long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) was detected with the instruments on board the INTEGRAL satellite on January 31 2003. Although most of the GRB, which lasted $\sim$150 seconds, occurred during a satellite slew, the automatic software of the…

In October 2007 a hard X-ray burst was detected by the INTEGRAL satellite from a direction consistent with the position of AX J1818.8-1559, an X-ray source at low Galactic latitude discovered with the ASCA satellite in 1996-1999. The short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Mereghetti , P. Esposito , A. Tiengo , D. Gotz , G. L. Israel , A. De Luca

After the first nine years of INTEGRAL operational life, the discovery of new sources and source types, a large fraction of which are highly transient or highly absorbed, is certainly one of the most compelling results and legacies of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Mariateresa Fiocchi , Lorenzo Natalucci

I review the properties of three X-ray accreting millisecond pulsars observed with INTEGRAL. Out of seven recently discovered accretion-powered pulsars (one discovered by INTEGRAL), three were observed with the INTEGRAL satellite up to 300…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-07 Maurizio Falanga

The ESA INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophyisics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is composed of two main instruments (IBIS and SPI) for the gamma-ray astrophysics (20 keV - 10 MeV), plus two monitors (JEM-X and OMC) for X-ray and optical counterparts.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 L. Foschini , G. Di Cocco , G. Malaguti

Magnetar is a neutron star with an ultrahigh magnetic field ($\sim 10^{14}-10^{15}$ G). The magnetar SGR J1935+2154 is not only one of the most active magnetars detected so far, but also the unique confirmed source of fast radio bursts…

Context: The INTEGRAL mission has led to the discovery of a new type of supergiant X-ray binaries (SGXBs), whose physical properties differ from those of previously known SGXBs. Those sources are in the course of being unveiled by means of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Farid Rahoui , Sylvain Chaty , Pierre-Olivier Lagage , Eric Pantin

Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors reported the first binary neutron star merger candidate in the third observing run, S190425z, on 25th April 2019. A weak $\gamma$-ray excess was reported nearly coincidentally by the INTEGRAL satellite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 M. Saleem , L. Resmi , K. G. Arun , S. Mohan

Since it started observing the sky, the INTEGRAL satellite has discovered new categories of high mass X-ray binaries (HMXB) in our Galaxy. These observations raise important questions on the formation and evolution of these rare and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexis Coleiro , Sylvain Chaty , Juan A. Zurita Heras , Farid Rahoui , John A. Tomsick

We report the discovery of a high-energy transient with the IBIS/ISGRI detector on board the INTEGRAL observatory. The source, namely IGR J00291+5934, was first detected on 2nd December 2004 in the routine monitoring of the IBIS/ISGRI…

In the late afternoon of November 25, 2002 a gamma-ray burst (GRB) was detected in the partially coded field of view (about 7.3 deg from the centre) of the imager IBIS on board the INTEGRAL satellite. The instruments on-board INTEGRAL…

A new type of high-energy binary systems has been revealed by the INTEGRAL satellite. These sources are in the course of being unveiled by means of multi-wavelength optical, near- and mid-infrared observations. Among these sources, two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-02 Sylvain 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