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Proposal ID 0620001
Obs ID 06200010001, 06200010002, 06200010003, 06200010004, 06200010005, 06200010006, 06200010007, 06200010008, 06200010009, 06200010010, 06200010011, 06200010012, 06200010013, 06200010014, 06200010015, 06200010016, 06200010017, 06200010018, 06200010019, 06200010020, 06200010021, 06200010022, 06200010023, 06200010024, 06200010025, 06200010026, 06200010027, 06200010028, 06200010029, 06200010030, 06200010031, 06200010032, 06200010033, 06200010034, 06200010035, 06200010036, 06200010037, 06200010038, 06200010039, 06200010040
Title Regular and frequent INTEGRAL monitoring of the Galactic Bulge region
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DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-0avvim1
Author Kuulkers
Abstract The Galactic bulge region is a rich host of variable X-ray and gamma-ray point sources.In AO-3, AO-4 and AO-5 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 2008-08-18T01:22:07Z / 2009-10-08T00:13:50Z
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 2026-03-05T13:05:56Z
Keywords INTEGRAL gamma-ray data, ESA INTEGRAL mission dataset, gamma-ray astronomy observations, high-energy astrophysics data, IBIS imaging data, SPI spectrometer data, JEM-X X-ray monitoring data, OMC optical monitoring data, coded mask telescope observations, gamma-ray spectroscopy dataset, MeV astrophysics data, keV–MeV photon observations, gamma-ray burst observations dataset, black hole gamma-ray data, neutron star high-energy observations, positron annihilation 511 keV line data, Galactic Center gamma-ray emission dataset, supernova nucleosynthesis gamma-ray lines, active galactic nuclei high-energy data, transient astrophysical source monitoring, calibrated photon event lists, gamma-ray light curves, high-energy spectra data, sky maps gamma-ray, time-series astrophysical observations, long-term gamma-ray monitoring dataset
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, Kuulkers, 2026, 'Regular and frequent INTEGRAL monitoring of the Galactic Bulge region', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-0avvim1