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The spectrometer SPI, one of the two main instruments of the INTEGRAL spacecraft, offers significant gamma-ray burst detection capabilities. In its 35 deg (full width) field of view SPI is able to localise gamma-ray bursts at a mean rate of…

The 511 keV emission from the Galactic Bulge observed by INTEGRAL/SPI could be the product of light (1-100 MeV) annihilating dark matter particles. In order to distinguish between annihilating light dark matter scenarios and more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Cordier , D. Attie , M. Casse , J. Paul , S. Schanne , P. Sizun , P. Jean , J. -P. Roques , G. Vedrenne

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 the recent beautiful results on gamma-ray lines obtained with CGRO, the INTEGRAL mission with the imaging-spectrometer SPI will set the next milestone, combining improved sensitivity and angular resolution with a considerable increase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jurgen Knodlseder , Gilbert Vedrenne

Operational since 2002 on-board the INTEGRAL observatory, the SPI spectrometer can be used to perform polarization measurements in the hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray domain (~ 130 keV - 8 MeV). However, this phenomenon is complex to measure at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 E. Jourdain , J. P. Roques , M. Chauvin , D. J. Clark

We present a map of 511 keV electron-positron annihilation emission, based on data accumulated with the SPI spectrometer aboard ESA's INTEGRAL gamma-ray observatory, that covers approximately 95% of the celestial sphere. 511 keV line…

After the first nine years of INTEGRAL operational life, the discovery of new sources and source types, a large fraction of which are highly transient or highly absorbed, is certainly one of the most compelling results and legacies of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Mariateresa Fiocchi , Lorenzo Natalucci

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

The spectrometer SPI on board INTEGRAL is capable of high-resolution spectroscopic studies in the energy range 20keV to 8MeV for GRBs which occur within the fully coded field of view (16 degrees corner to corner). Six GRBs occurred within…

During the period Aug.23-Sept.24 2003, the INTEGRAL observatory performed an ultra deep survey of the Galactic Center region with a record sensitivity at energies higher than 20 keV. We have analized images of the Galactic Center region…

INTEGRAL regularly scans the Galactic plane to search for new objects and in particular for absorbed sources with the bulk of their emission above 10-20 keV. The first new INTEGRAL source was discovered on 2003 January 29, 0.5 degree from…

The Imager on Board Integral Satellite (IBIS) is the imaging instrument of the INTEGRAL satellite, the hard-X/soft-gamma ray ESA mission to be launched in 2001. It provides diagnostic capabilities of fine imaging (12' FWHM), source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Goldoni , A. Goldwurm , P. Laurent , F. Lebrun

The Galaxy hosts a widespread population of low-energy positrons revealed by successive generations of gamma-ray telescopes through a bright annihilation emission from the bulge region, with a fainter contribution from the inner disk. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Martin , A. W. Strong , P. Jean , A. Alexis , R. Diehl

With 20 years of INTEGRAL/SPI observations, Yoneda et al. (2025) created the most detailed map of the positron annihilation line at 511keV. While central bulge and extended disk are readily recognised in this map, several hotspots at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Thomas Siegert , Hiroki Yoneda

We report on Cyg X-1 observations performed by the SPI telescope onboard the INTEGRAL mission and distributed over more than 6 years. We investigate the variability of the intensity and spectral shape of this peculiar source in the hard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Elisabeth Jourdain , Jean-Pierre Roques , Julien Malzac

Observations of a strong and extended positron-electron annihilation line emission in the Galactic center (GC) region by the SPI/INTEGRAL are challenging to the existing models of positron sources in the Galaxy. In this paper, we study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Wang

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

The 511 keV gamma-ray emission from the galactic center region may fully or partially originate from the annihilation of positrons from dark matter particles with electrons from the interstellar medium. Alternatively, the positrons could be…

We report the results of the deepest Galactic Plane (|b| < 17.5 deg) survey in the 67.9 and 78.4 keV nuclear de-excitation lines of titanium-44 (44Ti) performed using the data acquired with the IBIS/ISGRI instrument onboard the INTEGRAL…

Studies based on the gamma-ray lines from radioactive decay of unstable isotopes produced in massive-star and supernova nucleosynthesis have been among INTEGRAL's prominent science achievements. 26Al has become a tool to study specific…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-17 Roland Diehl , Frauke Alexander , Martin Krause , Daniel Lubos , Karsten Kretschmer , Pierrick Martin , Wei Wang