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The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, i.e. the INTEGRAL satellite of ESA, in orbit since about 3 years, performs gamma-ray observations of the sky in the 15 keV to 8 MeV energy range. Thanks to its imager IBIS, and in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Schanne

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

In this paper we report on the third soft gamma-ray source catalog obtained with the IBIS/ISGRI gamma-ray imager on board the INTEGRAL satellite. The scientific dataset is based on more than 40 Ms of high quality observations performed…

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

Despite being a general observatory, and not a Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) oriented mission, INTEGRAL has contributed to several important discoveries in the GRB field. This has been obtained thanks to its unprecedented localization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-21 Diego Gotz

Since its launch on October 2002, the INTEGRAL satellite has revolutionized our knowledge of the hard X-ray sky thanks to its unprecedented imaging capabilities and source detection positional accuracy above 20 keV. Nevertheless, many of…

The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), launched in 2002, continues its successful work in observing the sky at energies E>20 keV. The legacy of the mission already includes a large number of discovered or previously…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-14 Roman Krivonos , Sergey Sazonov , Ekaterina Kuznetsova , Alexander Lutovinov , Ilya Mereminskiy , Sergey Tsygankov

During the period Aug.23-Sept.24 2003, the INTEGRAL observatory performed an ultra deep survey of the Galactic Center region with a record sensitivity at energies higher than 20 keV. We have analized images of the Galactic Center region…

We studied spectra for 34 accretion-powered X-ray and one millisecond pulsars that were within the field of view of the INTEGRAL observatory over two years (December 2002 - January 2005) of its in-orbit operation and that were detected by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Filippova , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov , R. A. Sunyaev

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…

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…

The repeating fast radio burst FRB 20200120E is located in a globular cluster belonging to the nearby M81 galaxy. Its small distance (3.6 Mpc) and accurate localization make it an interesting target to search for bursting activity at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Sandro Mereghetti , Martin Topinka , Michela Rigoselli , Diego Gotz

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

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

A systematic search for cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and other short hard X-ray events in the archival data from the IBIS/ISGRI telescope of the INTEGRAL observatory over 2003-2018 has been carried out. Seven previously unknown GRBs have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-26 I. V. Chelovekov , S. A. Grebenev , A. S. Pozanenko , P. Yu. Minaev

The International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) has been surveying the sky above 20 keV since its launch in 2002 providing new insights into the nature of the sources that populate our Universe at soft gamma-ray energies. The…

The ESA gamma-ray observatory INTEGRAL, launched on 17 October 2002, continues to produce a wealth of discoveries and new results on compact high energy Galactic objects, nuclear gamma-ray line emission, diffuse line and continuum emission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-28 Christoph Winkler

Deep observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and region were carried out in the hard X-ray band by the INTEGRAL observatory in 2008-2009. The field of view of the instrument permitted simultaneous coverage of the entire SMC and the…

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

Extragalactic nuclear activity is best explored with observations at high energies, where the most extreme flux and spectral variations are expected to occur, witnessing changes in the accretion flow or in the kinematics of the plasma. In…