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Proposal ID 0520001
Obs ID 05200010001, 05200010002, 05200010003, 05200010004, 05200010005, 05200010006, 05200010007, 05200010008, 05200010009, 05200010010, 05200010011, 05200010012, 05200010013, 05200010014, 05200010015, 05200010016, 05200010017, 05200010018, 05200010019, 05200010020, 05200010021, 05200010022, 05200010023, 05200010024, 05200010025, 05200010026, 05200010027, 05200010028, 05200010029, 05200010030, 05200010031, 05200010032, 05200010033, 05200010034
Title Regular and frequent INTEGRAL monitoring of the Galactic Bulge region
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DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-mkllx72
Author Kuulkers
Abstract The Galactic bulge region is a rich host of variable X-ray and gamma-ray point sources.In AO-3 and AO-4 we have been monitoring this region with one hexagonal observation approximately every 3 days, whenever it was visible by INTEGRAL. Because of the high scientific return and to preserve the continuity with respect to past observations of this ever-changing region,we suggest to continue our successful observing program. As a service to the scientificcommunity we make the IBIS/ISGRI and JEM-X light curves, both in two energy bands perscience window and per hexagonal observation, as well as the mosaic images per hexagonalobservation, publicly available through the web as soon as possible after theobservations have been performed. Any interesting source behaviour which emerges from ourobservations will be announced promptly, so that rapid follow-up by the community ispossible. Our team consists of scientists with expertise on a large range of topics. We alsointend to do a more in-depth analysis (spectra, bursts, flares, etc.) of sources of particular intereston short and long time scales. These sources include bright and relatively faint X-raytransients, X-ray bursters, persistent neutron star and black-hole candidate binaries,high-mass X-ray binaries, etc..
Publications
Temporal Coverage 2007-08-19T03:07:54Z / 2008-04-20T13:06:01Z
Version 1.0
Mission Description The INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) mission, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) on October 17, 2002, was designed to study high-energy phenomena in the universe. INTEGRAL was operating until february 2025 and it was equipped with three high-energy instruments: the Imager on Board the INTEGRAL Satellite (IBIS), the Spectrometer on INTEGRAL (SPI), and the JEM-X (Joint European Monitor for X-rays). Its Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) provided optical V-band magnitude measurements, complementing the high-energy observations.
Creator Contact https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/integral/helpdesk
Date Published 2025-03-25T09:54:34Z
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, Kuulkers, 2025, 'Regular and frequent INTEGRAL monitoring of the Galactic Bulge region', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-mkllx72