First results from the INTEGRAL Galactic plane scans
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
Scans of the Galactic plane performed at regular intervals constitute a key element of the guaranteed time observations of the INTEGRAL observing programme. These scans are done for two reasons: frequent monitoring of the Galactic plane in order to detect transient sources, and time resolved mapping of the Galactic plane in continuum and diffuse line emission. This paper describes first results obtained from the Galactic plane scans executed so far during the early phase (Dec 2002 - May 2003) of the nominal mission.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0307220,
title = {First results from the INTEGRAL Galactic plane scans},
author = {C. Winkler and N. Gehrels and V. Schoenfelder and J. -P. Roques and A. W. Strong and C. Wunderer and P. Ubertini and F. Lebrun and A. Bazzano and M. Del Santo and N. Lund and N. J. Westergaard and V. Beckmann and P. Kretschmar and S. Mereghetti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0307220},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures, Latex. A&A (submitted)