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The INTEGRAL Gamma-Ray Sky after 1000 days in orbit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2006

P. Ubertini ,
A. Bazzano ,
A. J. Bird ,
L. Bassani ,
F. Lebrun  and
R. Walter
P. Ubertini
Affiliation:
INAF/Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Area di Ricerca Tor Vergata, Via Fosso del Cavalire 100, 00133 Rome, Italy email: pietro.ubertini@rm.isf.cnr.it email: angela.bazzano@rm.iasf.cnr.it
A. Bazzano
Affiliation:
INAF/Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Area di Ricerca Tor Vergata, Via Fosso del Cavalire 100, 00133 Rome, Italy email: pietro.ubertini@rm.isf.cnr.it email: angela.bazzano@rm.iasf.cnr.it
A. J. Bird
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK email: ajb@astro.soton.ac.uk
L. Bassani
Affiliation:
INAF/Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy email: loredana.bassani@bo.iasf.cnr.it
F. Lebrun
Affiliation:
CEA Saclay Service d'Astrophysique 91191 Gif sur Yvette cedex France email: lebrun@hep.saclay.cea.fr.
R. Walter
Affiliation:
ISDC ch. D'Ecogia 16 01290 O1290 Versoix CH email: Roland.Walter@obs.unige.ch
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Abstract

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This paper will review the main astrophysical results obtained in the field of high energy Galactic sources with the INTEGRAL/IBIS Gamma-ray Imager (Ubertini et al. 2003) on-board INTEGRAL (Winkler et al. 2003), the ESA space Observatory successfully launched the 17th October 2002 from Baikonur with a Proton vehicle. In view of the high sensitivity of the two gamma ray instruments IBIS and SPI and their capability to provide at the same time image, spectra and time profiles of all the sources in their wide field of view, a key project was approved as “Core Programme” to deeply observe the Galactic Centre (GCDE) and to exploit regular scans of the whole Galaxy Plane. The major results obtained in terms of classes of high energy emitters are shortly outlined.

Keywords

gamma rays: observationstelescopessurveys
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 1 , Symposium S230: Populations of High Energy Sources in Galaxies , August 2005 , pp. 315 - 323
Copyright
2006 International Astronomical Union