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We present recent improvements in polarization analysis with the INTEGRAL SPI data. The SPI detector plane consists of 19 independent Ge crystals and can operate as a polarimeter. The anisotropy characteristics of Compton diffusions can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Chauvin , J. P. Roques , D. J. Clark , E. Jourdain

After more than six and half years in orbit, the ESA space observatory INTEGRAL has provided new, exciting results in the soft gamma-ray energy range (from a few keV to a few MeV). With the discovery of about 700 hard X-Ray sources, it has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 P. Ubertini , A. Corsi , S. Foley , S. McGlynn , G. De Cesare , A. Bazzano

Observations with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and the Jodrell Bank, Parkes, and Green Bank telescopes have enabled us to determine the time delay between radio and X-ray pulses in the two isolated pulsars B1821-24 and B1509-58. For the…

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 INTEGRAL Radiation Environment Monitor (IREM) is a payload supporting instrument on board the INTEGRAL satellite. The monitor continually measures electron and proton fluxes along the orbit and provides this information to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 W. Hajdas , P. Bühler , C. Eggel , P. Favre , A. Mchedlishvili , A. Zehnder

The recent flight experiments with Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (\textit{NICER}) and \textit{Insight}-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (\textit{Insight}-HXMT) have demonstrated the feasibility of X-ray pulsar-based navigation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-11 Yidi Wang , Shuangnan Zhang , Minyu Ge , Wei Zheng , Xiaoqian Chen , Shijie Zheng , Fangju Lu

With recent and archival Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) X-ray measurements of the heavily obscured X-ray pulsar IGR J16393-4643, we carried out a pulse timing analysis to determine the orbital parameters. Assuming a circular orbit, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. W. J. Thompson , J. A. Tomsick , R. E. Rothschild , J. J. M. in't Zand , R. Walter

We present updated hard X-ray polarization measurements of the Crab pulsar and nebula obtained with the balloon-borne polarimeter XL-Calibur in the ~19-64 keV energy range. During the flight, intermittent GPS-failure resulted in poorly…

The POLAR detector is a space based Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) polarimeter sensitive in the 15-500 keV energy range. Apart from its main scientific goal as a Gamma-Ray Burst polarimeter it is also able to detect photons from pulsars in orbit. By…

Aims: We investigate the X-ray spectral and timing properties of the accreting X-ray pulsar Her X-1 observed with the INTEGRAL satellite in July-August 2005. Methods: The data analyzed in this work cover a substantial part of one main-on…

We report on the discovery of two Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) from analysis of archival INTEGRAL data. Both are characterized by a remarkable hard X-ray activity above 20 keV, in term of duration (about 15 and 30 minutes, respectively),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 V. Sguera , L. Sidoli , A. Paizis , A. J. Bird

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

The gamma-ray astronomical observatory INTEGRAL, succesfully launched on 17th October 2002, carries two large gamma-ray telescopes. One of them is the coded-mask imaging gamma-ray telescope onboard the INTEGRAL satellite (IBIS) which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Goldwurm , P. David , L. Foschini , A. Gros , P. Laurent , A. Sauvageon , A. J. Bird , L. Lerusse , N. Produit

The hard X-ray detector (HXD) on board the X-ray satellite Suzaku is designed to have a good timing capability with a 61 $\mu$s time resolution. In addition to detailed descriptions of the HXD timing system, results of in-orbit timing…

A ToO observation of the TeV-emitting blazar Mrk 421 with INTEGRAL was triggered in June 2006 by an increase of the RXTE count rate to more than 30 mCrab. The source was then observed with all INTEGRAL instruments with the exception of the…

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

The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS) has been developed to detect and locate in real time the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) serendipitously observed by INTEGRAL. The IBAS software runs automatically at the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-22 Sandro Mereghetti

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…

During the first six months of operations, six Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been detected in the field of view of the INTEGRAL instruments and localized by the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS): a software for the automatic search of GRBs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Mereghetti

POLAR is a Compton polarimeter sensitive in the 50 to 500 keV energy range. The Crab pulsar is a scientific target for POLAR on board the Chinese space laboratory Tiangong-2 (TG-2). With its large Field of View (FoV), POLAR detected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 POLAR collaboration , Hancheng Li , Mingyu Ge , Bobing Wu