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The imager IBIS on board INTEGRAL is composed of two detector planes: ISGRI (15 keV - 1 MeV) and PICsIT (170 keV - 10 MeV). Here we describe the data structure of PICsIT and the instrument specific software, including the standard…

We present results of a study of the Galactic hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray background emission performed with the IBIS telescope aboard the INTEGRAL observatory using data obtained over more than 20 years of operations. The study of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Roman Krivonos , Ekaterina Shtykovskaya , Sergey Sazonov

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…

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…

Compton telescopes provide a good sensitivity over a wide field of view in the difficult energy range running from a few hundred keV to several MeV. Their angular resolution is, however, poor and strongly energy dependent. We present a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-29 M. Forot , P. Laurent , F. Lebrun , O. Limousin

We present results of an all-sky hard X-ray survey based on almost four years of observations with the IBIS telescope on board the INTEGRAL observatory. The dead time-corrected exposure of the survey is ~33 Ms. Approximately 12% and 80% of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Krivonos , M. Revnivtsev , A. Lutovinov , S. Sazonov , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev

During more than 17 years of operation in space INTEGRAL telescope has accumulated large data set that contains records of hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray astronomical sources. These data can be re-used in the context of multi-wavelength or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 A. Neronov , V. Savchenko , A. Tramacere , M. Meharga , C. Ferrigno , S. Paltani

We report the discovery of persistent hard X-ray emission extending up to 150 keV from the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1806-20 using data obtained with the INTEGRAL satellite in 2003-2004. Previous observations of hard X-rays from objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Mereghetti , D. Gotz , I. F. Mirabel , K. Hurley

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

With the launch of ESA's INTEGRAL satellite in october 2002, a gamma-ray observatory will become available to the scientific community that combines imaging and spectroscopic capacities in the 20 keV to 10 MeV energy range. In this paper,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jurgen Knodlseder , Jean-Pierre Roques

We describe the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS): the automatic software developed at the INTEGRAL Science Data Center to allow the rapid distribution of the coordinates of the Gamma-Ray Bursts detected by INTEGRAL. IBAS is implemented as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mereghetti , D. I. Cremonesi , J. Borkowski

The IBIS data Archive (IBIS-A) stores data acquired with the Interferometric BIdimensional Spectropolarimeter (IBIS), which was operated at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the US National Solar Observatory from 2003 to 2019. The instrument…

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 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

We present a catalogue with the properties of all the bursts detected and localized by the IBIS instrument onboard the INTEGRAL satellite from November 2002 to September 2008. The sample is composed of 56 bursts, corresponding to a rate of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Vianello , D. Götz , S. Mereghetti

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…

INTEGRAL is a hard X-ray/gamma-ray observatory for astrophysics (ESA) covering photon energies from 15 keV to 10 MeV. It was launched in 2002 and since then the BGO detectors of the Anti-Coincidence shield (ACS) of the SPI spectrometer have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Rosa Rodríguez-Gasén , Jürgen Kiener , Vincent Tatischeff , Nicole Vilmer , Clarisse Hamadache , Karl-Ludwig Klein

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

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

All of the observations performed with the IBIS telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory during the first one and a half years of its in-orbit operation (from February 10, 2003, through July 2, 2004) have been analyzed to find X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. V. Chelovekov , S. A. Grebenev , R. A. Sunyaev