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Neutral hydrogen (HI) is the fundamental component of the interstellar medium. The Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey is designed for hunting pulsars by using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-01 Tao Hong , J. L. Han , L. G. Hou , X. Y. Gao , Chen Wang , Tao Wang

In this report, the implementation of a program for the simulation of the sky map, in the gamma rays energy range, observed by the GLAST experiment will be described. The program generates a list of photons and images of the galactic and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Cecchi , F. Marcucci , M. Pepe , G. Tosti

The Galactic All-Sky Survey is a survey of Galactic atomic hydrogen emission in the southern sky observed with the Parkes 64-m Radio Telescope. The first data release (GASS I) concerned survey goals and observing techniques, the second…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-10 Peter M. W. Kalberla , Urmas Haud

The imaging spectrometer SPI on board ESA's INTEGRAL observatory provides us with an unprecedented view of positron annihilation in our Galaxy. The first sky maps in the 511 keV annihilation line and in the positronium continuum from SPI…

We present the first INTEGRAL AGN catalog, based on observations performed from launch of the mission in October 2002 until January 2004. The catalog includes 42 AGN, of which 10 are Seyfert 1, 17 are Seyfert 2, and 9 are intermediate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Beckmann , N. Gehrels , C. R. Shrader , S. Soldi

Two observation campaigns performed in 2003 and 2004 with the INTEGRAL satellite have provided the first sensitive survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud with an imaging instrument in the hard X-ray range (15 keV - 10 MeV). The high energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Gotz , S. Mereghetti , D. Merlini , L. Sidoli , T. Belloni

This White Paper proposes a unique milli-Jansky sensitive arcsecond resolution VLA 15 GHz (Ku band) continuum polarization imaging survey of the Galactic plane using C array configuration. The science driver is to fill the gap between…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-25 Lorant O. Sjouwerman , Elisabeth A. C. Mills

Diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced in interactions of cosmic rays with gas and ambient photon fields and thus provides us with an indirect measurement of cosmic rays in various locations in the Galaxy. The diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl

A prototype system for the Permanent All Sky Survey (PASS) project is presented. PASS is a continuous photometric survey of the entire celestial sphere with a high temporal resolution. Its major objectives are the detection of all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. J. Deeg , R. Alonso , J. A. Belmonte , Keith Horne , K. Alsubai , A. C. Cameron , L. R. Doyle

Galactic accretion interacts in complex ways with gaseous halos, including galactic winds. As a result, observational diagnostics typically probe a range of intertwined physical phenomena. Because of this complexity, cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere

Galactic synchrotron and free-free foregrounds angular spectra are analytically estimated with account for interstellar turbulence and radiating process physics. Unknown parameters of the spectra are obtained by fitting to observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Chepurnov

First observations for the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project were carried out in February 2004. The project is ongoing and we currently observe approximately every three weeks. The data have led to numerous scientific results on topics as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-04 G. Hobbs

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

We derive the spectra of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) and of the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) in the ~20-200 keV range from the data of the IBIS instrument aboard the INTEGRAL satellite obtained during the four dedicated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Turler , M. Chernyakova , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , P. Lubinski , A. Neronov , N. Produit , R. Walter

We present the results of a re-examination of a [Ne II] line emission data cube (\lambda 12.8 \mu m) and discuss the kinematic structure of the inner \sim 3 \times 4 pc of the Galaxy. The quality of [Ne II] as a tracer of ionized gas is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bernd Vollmer , Wolfgang J. Duschl

We report here the first results of the spectral and timing analysis of our simultaneous INTEGRAL/RXTE observations of GRS 1915+105. The first observation ever performed with INTEGRAL revealed a new class of variability, where changes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Rodriguez , D. C. Hannikainen , S. E. Shaw , C. Cabanac , Y. Fuchs

A complicated and ambitious space mission like Gaia needs a careful monitoring and evaluation of the functioning of all components of the satellite. This has to be performed on different time scales, by different methods, and on different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Jordan , U. Bastian , H. Lenhardt , H. -H. Bernstein , S. Hirte , M. Biermann

The analysis of the first three years of the OGLE data revealed 12 microlensing events of the Galactic bulge stars, with the characteristic time scales in the range $ 8.6 < t_0 < 80 $ days, where $ t_0 = R_E / V $. A complete sample of nine…

A number of Galactic sources emit GeV-TeV gamma rays that are produced through leptonic and/or hadronic mechanisms. Spectral analysis in this energy range is crucial in order to understand the emission mechanisms. The HAWC Gamma-Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Hao Zhou , C. Michelle Hui , Petra Huentemeyer

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