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The INTEGRAL satellite has been observing the gamma-ray sky for 15 years and has detected over 900 X-ray sources of various nature. However, more than 200 of these sources still lack precise identification. Our goal is to reveal the nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Francis Fortin , Sylvain Chaty , Alexis Coleiro , John Tomsick , Christian Nitschelm

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 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…

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

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-08 S. Chaty

After more than 5.5 years of in flight lifetime, the ESA space observatory INTEGRAL is depicting a new scenario in the soft gamma Ray domain. With the observation and discovery of more than 400 hard X-Ray sources has changed our view of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Pietro Ubertini

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…

We report on Chandra observations of 18 hard X-ray (>20 keV) sources discovered with the INTEGRAL satellite near the Galactic plane. For 14 of the INTEGRAL sources, we have uncovered one or two potential Chandra counterparts per source.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 John A. Tomsick , Arash Bodaghee , Sylvain Chaty , Jerome Rodriguez , Farid Rahoui , Jules Halpern , Emrah Kalemci , Mehtap Ozbey Arabaci

This paper is the second in a series devoted to the hard X-ray (17-60 keV) whole sky survey performed by the INTEGRAL observatory over seven years. Here we present a catalog of detected sources which includes 521 objects, 449 of which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 R. Krivonos , S. Tsygankov , M. Revnivtsev , S. Grebenev , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev

We present results of all sky survey, performed with data acquired by the IBIS telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory over eleven years of operation, at energies above 100 keV. A catalogue of detected sources includes 132 objects. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Roman A. Krivonos , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Alexander A. Lutovinov , Mikhail G. Revnivtsev , Eugene M. Churazov , Rashid A. Sunyaev

(abridged) Hard X-ray surveys performed by the INTEGRAL satellite have discovered a conspicuous fraction (up to 30%) of unidentified objects among the detected sources. Here we continue our identification program by selecting probable…

The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellite has detected in excess of 1000 sources in the ~20-100 keV band during its surveys of the sky over the past 17 years. We obtained 5 ks observations of 15 unclassified…

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

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 satellite, which studies the Universe in the hard X-ray and soft Gamma-ray domain, has been operational for 5 years now. The X-ray telescopes, which use the coded mask technique, provide unprecedented spectral and imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Volker Beckmann

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

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…

Early results from the INTEGRAL Core Program, for a sample of eight persistently bright neutron star low mass X-ray binaries in the energy range from 5 keV to 200 keV are presented. It is shown that INTEGRAL efficiently detects sources and…

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

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…

Context. The INTEGRAL observatory operating in a hard X-ray/gamma domain has gathered a large observational data set over nine years starting in 2003. Most of the observing time was dedicated to the Galactic source population study, making…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-18 R. Krivonos , S. Tsygankov , A. Lutovinov , M. Revnivtsev , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev
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