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Details of the discovery of a new X-ray source, IGR J18462-0223, on October 12, 2007, during a short (several hours), intense (~ 35 mCrab at the peak) outburst of hard radiation by the IBIS/ISGRI gamma-ray telescope onboard the INTEGRAL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 S. A. Grebenev , R. A. Sunyaev

During the first observing run of LIGO, two gravitational wave events and one lower-significance trigger (LVT151012) were reported by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration. At the time of LVT151012, the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics…

The anticoincidence shield (ACS) of the INTEGRAL-spectrometer SPI consists of 512 kg of BGO crystals. This massive scintillator allows the measurement of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with a very high sensitivity. Estimations have shown that with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. von Kienlin , N. Arend , Giselher G. Lichti

The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS) is the software for real time detection of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) and the rapid distribution of their coordinates. IBAS has been running almost continuously at the INTEGRAL Science Data Center since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mereghetti , D. Gotz , J. Borkowski , M. Beck , A. von Kienlin , N. Lund

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

The AGILE satellite, in orbit since 2007, localized up to October 2009 about 1 Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) per month with the hard X-ray imager SuperAGILE (18 - 60 keV) (with a rate reduced by a factor 2-3 in spinning mode) and is detecting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Longo , G. Barbiellini , E. Del Monte , M. Marisaldi , F. Fuschino , A. Giuliani

The spectrometer aboard INTEGRAL, SPI, has the capability to detect the signature of polarised emission from a bright gamma-ray source. GRB 041219a is the most intense burst localised by INTEGRAL and is an ideal candidate for such a study.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. McGlynn , D. J. Clark , A. J. Dean , L. Hanlon , S. McBreen , D. R. Willis , B. McBreen , A. J. Bird , S. Foley

The X and gamma-ray observations of the source GRB 031203 by INTEGRAL are interpreted within our theoretical model. In addition to a complete space-time parametrization of the GRB, we specifically assume that the afterglow emission…

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

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

INTEGRAL's JEM-X instrument offers a very rare opportunity to observe the full prompt X-ray emission from GRBs and the transition to the afterglow phase. A study of prompt X-ray flares in some bursts from the INTEGRAL GRB sample and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-05 A. Martin-Carrillo , L. Hanlon

The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer performed its first autonomous, X-ray follow-up to a newly detected GRB on 2005 January 17, within 193 seconds of the burst trigger by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope. While the burst was still in…

The gamma-ray burst source GRB970228 has been observed after a delay of 8--12 hours in X-rays and after one day in visible and near infrared light. This marks the first detection of emission at lower frequencies following the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. I. Katz , T. Piran , R. Sari

The nature of the prompt gamma-ray emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is still far from being completely elucidated. The measure of linear polarization is a powerful tool that can be used to put further constraints on the content and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Gotz , P. Laurent , S. Antier , S. Covino , P. D'Avanzo , V. D'Elia , A. Melandri

We study timing properties of a large sample of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) detected by the Anti-Coincidence Shield (ACS) of the SPI spectrometer of INTEGRAL telescope. We identify GRB-like events in the SPI-ACS data. The data set under…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 V. Savchenko , A. Neronov. T. J. -L. Courvoisier

A giant flare from the Soft Gamma-ray Repeater SGR 1806-20 has been detected by several satellites on 2004 December 27. This tremendous outburst, the first one observed from this source, was a hundred times more powerful than the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Mereghetti , D. Gotz , A. von Kienlin , A. Rau , G. Lichti , G. Weidenspointner , P. Jean , -

The short/hard GRB051210 was detected and located by the Swift-BAT instrument and rapidly pointed towards by the narrow field instrumens. The XRT was able to observe a bright X-ray afterglow, one of the few ever observed for this class of…

We have obtained deep optical images with the Very Large Telescope at ESO of the first well-localized short-duration gamma-ray burst, GRB 050509B. From V and R imaging, initiated ~2 days after the GRB trigger and lasting up to three weeks,…

Context: The transient hard X-ray source IGR J11321-5311 was discovered by INTEGRAL on June 2005, during observations of the Crux spiral arm. To date, this is the only detection of the source to be reported by any X/gamma-ray mission. Aims:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Sguera , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , A. B. Hill , A. J. Dean , L. Bassani , A. Malizia , P. Ubertini

In Spring 2005, the blazar 3C454.3 underwent a dramatic outburst at all wavelengths from mm to X-rays. This prompted INTEGRAL observations, accomplished in 15-18 May 2005. The source was detected by the INTEGRAL instruments from 3 to 200…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elena Pian , Luigi Foschini , Volker Beckmann