Related papers: SPI/INTEGRAL in-flight performance

Soft gamma-ray sources detected by INTEGRAL

We aim to exploit the available INTEGRAL/SPI data to provide time-averaged spectra of the brightest soft gamma-ray sources. Employing a maximum-likelihood fit technique for our SPI data analysis, we take as input to our source model the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Petry , V. Beckmann , H. Halloin , A. Strong

INTEGRAL: science highlights and future prospects

ESA's hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray observatory INTEGRAL is covering the 3 keV to 10 MeV energy band, with excellent sensitivity during long and uninterrupted observations of a large field of view (~100 square degrees), with ms time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-31 Christoph Winkler , Roland Diehl , Pietro Ubertini , Jörn Wilms

Gamma-ray continuum emission from the inner Galactic region as observed with INTEGRAL/SPI

The diffuse continuum emission from the Galactic plane in the energy range 18-1000 keV has been studied using 16 Ms of data from the SPI instrument on INTEGRAL. With such an exposure we can exploit the imaging properties of SPI to achieve a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Strong , R. Diehl , H. Halloin , V. Schoenfelder , L. Bouchet , P. Mandrou , F. Lebrun , R. Terrier

Suspension platform interferometer for the AEI 10\,m prototype: concept, design and optical layout

At present a 10\,m prototype interferometer facility is being set up at the AEI Hannover. One unique feature of the prototype will be the suspension platform interferometer (SPI). The purpose of the SPI is to monitor and stabilise the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Katrin Dahl , Oliver Kranz , Gerhard Heinzel , Benno Willke , Kenneth A Strain , Stefan Goßler , Karsten Danzmann

SPI/INTEGRAL observation of 1809 keV gamma-ray line emission from the Cygnus X region

We present first results on the observation of 1809 keV gamma-ray line emission from the Cygnus X region with the SPI imaging spectrometer. Our analysis is based on data from the performance verification phase of the INTEGRAL instruments…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Knödlseder , M. Valsesia , M. Allain , S. Boggs , R. Diehl , P. Jean , K. Kretschmer , J. -P. Roques , V. Schönfelder , G. Vedrenne , P. von Ballmoos , G. Weidenspointner , C. Winkler

On-sky vibration environment for the Gemini Planet Imager and mitigation effort

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) entered on-sky commissioning and had its first-light at the Gemini South (GS) telescope in November 2013. GPI is an extreme adaptive optics (XAO), high-contrast imager and integral-field spectrograph dedicated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Markus Hartung , Tom Hayward , Les Saddlemyer , Lisa Poyneer , Andrew Cardwell , Chas Cavedoni , Myung Cho , Jeffrey K. Chilcote , Paul Collins , Darren Dillon , Ramon Galvez , Gaston Gausachs , Stephen Goodsell , Andres Guesalaga , Pascal Hibon , James Larkin , Bruce Macintosh , Dave Palmer , Naru Sadakuni , Dmitry Savransky , Andrew Serio , Fredrik Rantakyro , Kent Wallace

INTEGRAL IBIS, SPI, and JEM-X observations of LVT151012

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 V. Savchenko , A. Bazzano , E. Bozzo , S. Brandt , J. Chenevez , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , R. Diehl , C. Ferrigno , L. Hanlon , A. von Kienlin , E. Kuulkers , P. Laurent , F. Lebrun , A. Lutovinov , A. Martin-Carrillo , S. Mereghetti , L. Natalucci , J. P. Roques , T. Siegert , R. Sunyaev , P. Ubertini

The Galactic $^{26}$Al emission map as revealed by INTEGRAL/SPI

Diffuse emission is often challenging since it is undetectable by most instruments, which are generally dedicated to point-source studies. The $^{26}$Al emission is a good illustration: the only available $^{26}$Al map to date has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Laurent Bouchet , Elisabeth Jourdain , Jean-Pierre Roques

Pointing control for the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope

We present the technology and control methods developed for the pointing system of the SPIDER experiment. SPIDER is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to detect the imprint of primordial gravitational waves in the polarization of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jamil A. Shariff , Peter A. R. Ade , Mandana Amiri , Steven J. Benton , Jamie J. Bock , J. Richard Bond , Sean A. Bryan , H. Cynthia Chiang , Carlo R. Contaldi , Brendan P. Crill , Olivier P. Doré , Marzieh Farhang , Jeffrey P. Filippini , Laura M. Fissel , Aurelien A. Fraisse , Anne E. Gambrel , Natalie N. Gandilo , Sunil R. Golwala , Jon E. Gudmundsson , Mark Halpern , Matthew Hasselfield , Gene C. Hilton , Warren A. Holmes , Viktor V. Hristov , Kent D. Irwin , William C. Jones , Zigmund D. Kermish , Chao-Lin Kuo , Carolyn J. MacTavish , Peter V. Mason , Krikor G. Megerian , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Tracy A. Morford , Johanna M. Nagy , C. Barth Netterfield , Roger O'Brient , Alexandra S. Rahlin , Carl D. Reintsema , John E. Ruhl , Marcus C. Runyan , Juan D. Soler , Amy Trangsrud , Carole E. Tucker , Rebecca S. Tucker , Anthony D. Turner , Alexis C. Weber , Donald V. Wiebe , Edward Y. Young

Euclid. III. The NISP Instrument

The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) on board the Euclid satellite provides multiband photometry and R>=450 slitless grism spectroscopy in the 950-2020nm wavelength range. In this reference article we illuminate the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Euclid Collaboration , K. Jahnke , W. Gillard , M. Schirmer , A. Ealet , T. Maciaszek , E. Prieto , R. Barbier , C. Bonoli , L. Corcione , S. Dusini , F. Grupp , F. Hormuth , S. Ligori , L. Martin , G. Morgante , C. Padilla , R. Toledo-Moreo , M. Trifoglio , L. Valenziano , R. Bender , F. J. Castander , B. Garilli , P. B. Lilje , H. -W. Rix , N. Auricchio , A. Balestra , J. -C. Barriere , P. Battaglia , M. Berthe , C. Bodendorf , T. Boenke , W. Bon , A. Bonnefoi , A. Caillat , V. Capobianco , M. Carle , R. Casas , H. Cho , A. Costille , F. Ducret , S. Ferriol , E. Franceschi , J. -L. Gimenez , W. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , M. Jhabvala , R. Kohley , B. Kubik , R. Laureijs , D. Le Mignant , I. Lloro , E. Medinaceli , Y. Mellier , G. Polenta , G. D. Racca , A. Renzi , J. -C. Salvignol , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , M. Seiffert , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , P. Strada , G. Smadja , L. Stanco , S. Wachter , S. Anselmi , E. Borsato , L. Caillat , F. Cogato , C. Colodro-Conde , P. -E. Crouzet , V. Conforti , M. D'Alessandro , Y. Copin , J. -C. Cuillandre , J. E. Davies , S. Davini , A. Derosa , J. J. Diaz , S. Di Domizio , D. Di Ferdinando , R. Farinelli , A. G. Ferrari , F. Fornari , L. Gabarra , C. M. Gutierrez , F. Giacomini , P. Lagier , F. Gianotti , O. Krause , F. Madrid , F. Laudisio , J. Macias-Perez , G. Naletto , M. Niclas , J. Marpaud , N. Mauri , R. da Silva , F. Passalacqua , K. Paterson , L. Patrizii , I. Risso , B. G. B. Solheim , M. Scodeggio , P. Stassi , J. Steinwagner , M. Tenti , G. Testera , R. Travaglini , S. Tosi , A. Troja , O. Tubio , C. Valieri , C. Vescovi , S. Ventura , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , J. Amiaux , S. Andreon , H. Aussel , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , A. Basset , A. Bonchi , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , P. -Y. Chabaud , A. Cimatti , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , J. -G. Cuby , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , A. M. Di Giorgio , J. Dinis , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , S. Farrens , F. Faustini , P. Fosalba , S. Fotopoulou , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , P. Franzetti , S. Galeotta , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , B. R. Granett , A. Grazian , L. Guzzo , M. Hailey , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , H. Hoekstra , I. Hook , P. Hudelot , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , O. Lahav , V. Lindholm , J. Lorenzo Alvarez , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , J. Martignac , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , D. C. Masters , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , S. Mei , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , J. J. Mohr , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , T. Nutma , K. Paech , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , J. A. Peacock , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Refregier , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , E. Rossetti , H. J. A. Rottgering , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , M. Sauvage , R. Scaramella , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , S. Serrano , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , D. Vibert , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , J. Zoubian , E. Zucca , P. N. Appleton , C. Baccigalupi , A. Biviano , M. Bolzonella , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , M. Calabrese , P. Casenove , M. Crocce , G. De Lucia , J. A. Escartin Vigo , G. Fabbian , F. Finelli , K. George , J. Gracia-Carpio , S. Ilić , P. Liebing , C. Liu , G. Mainetti , S. Marcin , M. Martinelli , P. W. Morris , C. Neissner , A. Pezzotta , M. Pöntinen , C. Porciani , Z. Sakr , V. Scottez , E. Sefusatti , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , V. Allevato , E. Aubourg , M. Ballardini , D. Bertacca , M. Bethermin , A. Blanchard , L. Blot , S. Borgani , A. S. Borlaff , S. Bruton , R. Cabanac , A. Calabro , G. Calderone , G. Canas-Herrera , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , G. Castignani , T. Castro , K. C. Chambers , Y. Charles , R. Chary , J. Colbert , S. Contarini , T. Contini , A. R. Cooray , M. Costanzi , O. Cucciati , B. De Caro , S. de la Torre , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , H. Dole , S. Escoffier , P. G. Ferreira , I. Ferrero , A. Finoguenov , A. Fontana , K. Ganga , J. García-Bellido , V. Gautard , E. Gaztanaga , G. Gozaliasl , A. Gregorio , A. Hall , W. G. Hartley , S. Hemmati , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , S. Hosseini , M. Huertas-Company , O. Ilbert , J. Jacobson , S. Joudaki , J. J. E. Kajava , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , C. C. Kirkpatrick , F. Lacasa , V. Le Brun , J. Le Graet , L. Legrand , G. Libet , S. J. Liu , A. Loureiro , M. Magliocchetti , C. Mancini , F. Mannucci , R. Maoli , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Matthew , L. Maurin , C. J. R. McPartland , R. B. Metcalf , M. Migliaccio , M. Miluzio , P. Monaco , C. Moretti , S. Nadathur , L. Nicastro , Nicholas A. Walton , J. Odier , M. Oguri , V. Popa , D. Potter , A. Pourtsidou , P. -F. Rocci , R. P. Rollins , B. Rusholme , M. Sahlén , A. G. Sánchez , C. Scarlata , J. Schaye , J. A. Schewtschenko , A. Schneider , M. Schultheis , M. Sereno , F. Shankar , A. Shulevski , G. Sikkema , A. Silvestri , P. Simon , A. Spurio Mancini , J. Stadel , S. A. Stanford , K. Tanidis , C. Tao , N. Tessore , R. Teyssier , S. Toft , M. Tucci , J. Valiviita , D. Vergani , F. Vernizzi , G. Verza , P. Vielzeuf , J. R. Weaver , L. Zalesky , I. A. Zinchenko , M. Archidiacono , F. Atrio-Barandela , C. L. Bennett , T. Bouvard , F. Caro , S. Conseil , P. Dimauro , P. -A. Duc , Y. Fang , A. M. N. Ferguson , T. Gasparetto , I. Kova{č}ić , S. Kruk , A. M. C. Le Brun , T. I. Liaudat , A. Montoro , A. Mora , C. Murray , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , M. Radovich , E. Sarpa , E. Tommasi , A. Viitanen , J. Lesgourgues , M. E. Levi , J. Martín-Fleitas

Design and performance of the Spider instrument

Here we describe the design and performance of the Spider instrument. Spider is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background polarization imager that will map part of the sky at 90, 145, and 280 GHz with sub-degree resolution and high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-14 M. C. Runyan , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. Benton , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , O. Dore , D. O'Dea , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. Fissel , N. Gandilo , S. R. Golwala , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Hasselfield , M. Halpern , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , C. L. Kuo , C. J. MacTavish , P. V. Mason , T. A. Morford , T. E. Montroy , C. B. Netterfield , A. S. Rahlin , C. D. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. A. Schenker , J. Shariff , J. D. Soler , A. Trangsrud , R. S. Tucker , C. Tucker , A. Turner

A GRB Detection System using the BGO-Shield of the INTEGRAL-Spectrometer SPI

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

Development of position-sensitive time-of-flight spectrometer for fission fragment research

A position-sensitive, high-resolution time-of-flight detector for fission fragments has been developed. The SPectrometer for Ion DEterminiation in fission Research (SPIDER) is a $2E-2v$ spectrometer designed to measure the mass of light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 C. W. Arnold , F. Tovesson , K. Meierbachtol , T. Bredeweg , M. Jandel , H. J. Jorgenson , A. Laptev , G. Rusev , D. W. Shields , M. White , R. E. Blakeley , D. M. Mader , A. A. Hecht

Infrared photometry with InGaAs detectors: First light with SPECULOOS

We present the photometric performance of SPIRIT, a ground-based near-infrared InGaAs CMOS-based instrument (1280 by 1024 pixels, 12 micron pitch), using on-sky results from the SPECULOOS-Southern Observatory during 2022 - 2023. SPIRIT was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 Peter P. Pedersen , Didier Queloz , Lionel Garcia , Yannick Schacke , Laetitia Delrez , Brice-Olivier Demory , Elsa Ducrot , Georgina Dransfield , Michael Gillon , Matthew J. Hooton , Clàudia Janó-Muñoz , Emmanuël Jehin , Daniel Sebastian , Mathilde Timmermans , Samantha Thompson , Amaury H. M. J. Triaud , Julien de Wit , Sebastián Zúñiga-Fernández

In-flight calibrations of IBIS/PICsIT

PICsIT (Pixellated Imaging CaeSium Iodide Telescope) is the high energy detector of the IBIS telescope on-board the INTEGRAL satellite. It consists of 4096 independent detection units, ~0.7 cm^2 in cross-section, operating in the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Malaguti , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , G. Di Cocco , L. Foschini , P. Laurent , A. Segreto , J. B. Stephen , P. Ubertini

Gemini Planet Imager Observational Calibrations VI: Photometric and Spectroscopic Calibration for the Integral Field Spectrograph

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a new facility instrument for the Gemini Observatory designed to provide direct detection and characterization of planets and debris disks around stars in the solar neighborhood. In addition to its extreme…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jérôme Maire , Patrick J. Ingraham , Robert J. De Rosa , Marshall D. Perrin , Abhijith Rajan , Dmitry Savransky , Jason J. Wang , Jean-Baptiste Ruffio , Schuyler G. Wolff , Jeffrey K. Chilcote , René Doyon , James R. Graham , Alexandra Z. Greenbaum , Quinn M. Konopacky , James E. Larkin , Bruce A. Macintosh , Christian Marois , Max Millar-Blanchaer , Jennifer Patience , Laurent A. Pueyo , Anand Sivaramakrishnan , Sandrine J. Thomas , Jason L. Weiss

Analysis of extremely low signal-to-noise ratio data from INTEGRAL/PICsIT

The PICsIT detector onboard the INTEGRAL satellite was designed to provide information about emission in the soft gamma-ray band for many bright sources. Due to strong and variable instrumental background, only 4 objects have been detected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Piotr Lubinski

Spectral response of SPHEREx

The Spectro Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is conducting the first all-sky near infrared spectral survey spanning 0.75 to 5.0um with resolving power R~35 to 130. Linear…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Howard Hui , Jamie Bock , Samuel Condon , C. Darren Dowell , Woong-Seob Jeong , Young-soo Jo , Phil Korngut , Kenneth Manatt , Chi Nguyen , Hien Nguyen , Stephen Padin , Sung-Joon Park , Jeonghyun Pyo , Yujin Yang , Matt Ashby , Yoonsoo Bach , Tzu-Ching Chang , Yun-Ting Cheng , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Asantha Cooray , Brendan Crill , Ari Cukierman , Olivier Doré , Andreas Faisst , Joe Hora , Jae Hwan Kang , BoMee Lee , Carey Lisse , Dan Masters , Roberta Paladini , Zafar Rustamkulov , Volker Tolls , Michael Werner , Mike Zemcov

The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared Spectro-Polarimeter SCIP: an instrument for SUNRISE III

The Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory is equipped with a one-meter aperture optical telescope, offering a unique platform for uninterrupted seeing-free observations across ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths from altitudes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Y. Katsukawa , J. C. del Toro Iniesta , S. K. Solanki , M. Kubo , H. Hara , T. Shimizu , T. Oba , Y. Kawabata , T. Tsuzuki , F. Uraguchi , K. Shinoda , T. Tamura , Y. Suematsu , T. Matsumoto , R. T. Ishikawa , Y. Naito , K. Ichimoto , S. Nagata , T. Anan , D. Orozco Suárez , E. Sanchis Kilders , M. Balaguer Jiménez , A. C. López Jiménez , C. Quintero Noda , D. Álvarez García , J. L. Ramos Mas , J. P. Cobos Carrascosa , P. Labrousse , B. Aparicio del Moral , A. Sánchez Gómez , D. Hernández Expósito , E. Bailón Martínez , J. M. Morales Fernández , A. J. Moreno Mantas , A. Tobaruela , I. Bustamante , F. J. Bailén , J. Blanco Rodríguez , J. L. Gasent Blesa , P. Rodríguez Martínez , A. Ferreres , D. Gilabert Palmer , J. Piqueras Carreño , I. Pérez Grande , I. Torralbo , A. Álvarez Herrero , A. Korpi-Lagg , A. Gandorfer , T. Berkefeld , P Bernasconi , A. Feller , T. L. Riethmüller , H. N. Smitha , V. Martínez Pillet , B. Grauf , A. Bell , M. Carpenter

Particle Effects on the ISGRI Instrument On-Board the INTEGRAL Satellite

The INTEGRAL satellite was launched on October 17, 2002. All on-board instruments are operating successfully. In this paper, we focus on radiation effects on the Cadmium Telluride camera ISGRI. The spectral response of the camera is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnaud Claret , Olivier Limousin , Francis Lugiez , Philippe Laurent , Mathieu Renaud