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Name: AO-6 Key Programme 2: North Ecliptic Pole
Published: 2026-03-05T13:05:56Z

Proposal ID	0631000
Obs ID	06310000001, 06310000002
Title	AO-6 Key Programme 2: North Ecliptic Pole
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-witfjif
Author	Key Programme
Abstract	A deep observation of the North Ecliptic Pole is proposed. The aim is to reach a factor ~10 lower in flux than achieved previously. A considerable number of new faint sources are expected, which will be used to test the validity of population synthesis models which try toreproduce the X-ray background spectrum. Some of the faint sources will be Compton-thick AGN. The sample of sources will also be used to study the dependence of the obscured-to unobscured AGN ratio with either redshift and/or luminosity and thus to test the AGN unification model. The good high-energy response of IBIS and SPI will be used to test the presence of a high-energy (>100 keV) cut-off in the AGN spectra of the brightest objects and in the stacked spectrum of all the detected AGN.
Publications	A comprehensive analysis of the hard X-ray spectra of bright Seyfert galaxies - Lubinski, P., Beckmann, V.,Gibaud, L.,Paltani, S.,Papadakis, I. E.,Ricci, C.,Soldi, S.,Turler, M.,Walter, R.,Zdziarski, A. A. (2016-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016MNRAS.458.2454L Background modelling for I3-ray spectroscopy with INTEGRAL/SPI - Siegert, Thomas, Diehl, Roland,Weinberger, Christoph,Pleintinger, Moritz M. M.,Greiner, Jochen,Zhang, Xiaoling (2019-06-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019A&A...626A..73S Catalog of short gamma-ray transients detected in the SPI/INTEGRAL experiment - Minaev, P. Yu., Pozanenko, A. S.,Molkov, S. V.,Grebenev, S. A. (2014-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014AstL...40..235M Comparing simulated ²⁶Al maps to gamma-ray measurements - Pleintinger, Moritz M. M., Siegert, Thomas,Diehl, Roland,Fujimoto, Yusuke,Greiner, Jochen,Krause, Martin G. H.,Krumholz, Mark R. (2019-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019A&A...632A..73P Constraints on positron annihilation kinematics in the inner Galaxy - Siegert, Thomas, Crocker, Roland M.,Diehl, Roland,Krause, Martin G. H.,Panther, Fiona H.,Pleintinger, Moritz M. M.,Weinberger, Christoph (2019-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019A&A...627A.126S Diffuse Emission Measurement with the SPectrometer on INTEGRAL as an Indirect Probe of Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons - Bouchet, Laurent, Strong, Andrew W.,Porter, Troy A.,Moskalenko, Igor V.,Jourdain, Elisabeth,Roques, Jean-Pierre (2011-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011ApJ...739...29B Diffuse Galactic emission spectrum between 0.5 and 8.0 MeV - Siegert, Thomas, Berteaud, Joanna,Calore, Francesca,Serpico, Pasquale D.,Weinberger, Christoph (2022-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2022A&A...660A.130S Dose Measured On-Board INTEGRAL After More Than 12 Years in Space - Claret, Arnaud, Laurent, Philippe,Sauvageon, Aymeric,Savchenko, Volodymyr (2015-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015ITNS...62.2784C Extreme relativistic electron fluxes in the Earths outer radiation belt: Analysis of INTEGRAL IREM data - Meredith, Nigel P., Horne, Richard B.,Sandberg, Ingmar,Papadimitriou, Constantinos,Evans, Hugh D. R. (2017-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017SpWea..15..917M Gamma-Ray Emission of ⁶⁰Fe and ²⁶Al Radioactivity in Our Galaxy - Wang, W., Siegert, T.,Dai, Z. G.,Diehl, R.,Greiner, J.,Heger, A.,Krause, M.,Lang, M.,Pleintinger, M. M. M.,Zhang, X. L. (2020-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020ApJ...889..169W Gamma-ray spectroscopy of positron annihilation in the Milky Way - Siegert, Thomas, Diehl, Roland,Khachatryan, Gerasim,Krause, Martin G. H.,Guglielmetti, Fabrizia,Greiner, Jochen,Strong, Andrew W.,Zhang, Xiaoling (2016-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016A&A...586A..84S INTEGRAL 11-year hard X-ray survey above 100 keV - Krivonos, R., Tsygankov, S.,Lutovinov, A.,Revnivtsev, M.,Churazov, E.,Sunyaev, R. (2015-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015MNRAS.448.3766K INTEGRAL/IBIS 7-year All-Sky Hard X-Ray Survey. II. Catalog of sources - Krivonos, R., Tsygankov, S.,Revnivtsev, M.,Grebenev, S.,Churazov, E.,Sunyaev, R. (2010-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010A&A...523A..61K INTEGRAL/IBIS 7-year All-Sky Hard X-ray Survey. I. Image reconstruction - Krivonos, R., Revnivtsev, M.,Tsygankov, S.,Sazonov, S.,Vikhlinin, A.,Pavlinsky, M.,Churazov, E.,Sunyaev, R. (2010-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010A&A...519A.107K INTEGRAL/SPI {$gamma$}-ray line spectroscopy. Response and background characteristics - Diehl, Roland, Siegert, Thomas,Greiner, Jochen,Krause, Martin,Kretschmer, Karsten,Lang, Michael,Pleintinger, Moritz,Strong, Andrew W.,Weinberger, Christoph,Zhang, Xiaoling (2018-03-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018A&A...611A..12D Kinematics of massive star ejecta in the Milky Way as traced by ²⁶Al - Kretschmer, Karsten, Diehl, Roland,Krause, Martin,Burkert, Andreas,Fierlinger, Katharina,Gerhard, Ortwin,Greiner, Jochen,Wang, Wei (2013-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013A&A...559A..99K Leptonic origin of the 100 MeV γ-ray emission from the Galactic centre - Malyshev, D., Chernyakova, M.,Neronov, A.,Walter, R. (2015-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015A&A...582A..11M New hard X-ray sources discovered in the ongoing INTEGRAL Galactic plane survey after 14 yr of observations - Krivonos, Roman A., Tsygankov, Sergey S.,Mereminskiy, Ilya A.,Lutovinov, Alexander A.,Sazonov, Sergey Yu.,Sunyaev, Rashid A. (2017-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017MNRAS.470..512K On the Morphology of the Electron-Positron Annihilation Emission as Seen by Spi/integral - Bouchet, L., Roques, J. P.,Jourdain, E. (2010-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010ApJ...720.1772B Progressive steepening of the SNR RX J1713.7-3946 X-ray spectrum from XMM-Newton to INTEGRAL - Kuznetsova, Ekaterina, Krivonos, Roman,Churazov, Eugene,Lyskova, Natalia,Lutovinov, Alexander (2019-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019MNRAS.489.1828K Reflection in Seyfert galaxies and the unified model of AGN - Ricci, C., Walter, R.,Courvoisier, T. J. -L.,Paltani, S. (2011-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011A&A...532A.102R Search for 511 keV emission in satellite galaxies of the Milky Way with INTEGRAL/SPI - Siegert, Thomas, Diehl, Roland,Vincent, Aaron C.,Guglielmetti, Fabrizia,Krause, Martin G. H.,Boehm, Celine (2016-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016A&A...595A..25S Searching for γ-Ray Blazar Candidates among the Unidentified INTEGRAL Sources - Massaro, F., Paggi, A.,D Abrusco, R.,Tosti, G. (2012-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012ApJ...750L..35M Spatial clustering and halo occupation distribution modelling of local AGN via cross-correlation measurements with 2MASS galaxies - Krumpe, Mirko, Miyaji, Takamitsu,Coil, Alison L.,Aceves, Hector (2018-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018MNRAS.474.1773K Sub-GeV dark matter annihilation: limits from Milky Way observations with INTEGRAL - Siegert, Thomas, Calore, Francesca,Serpico, Pasquale Dario (2024-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024MNRAS.528.3433S ²⁶Al gamma rays from the Galaxy with INTEGRAL/SPI - Pleintinger, Moritz M. M., Diehl, Roland,Siegert, Thomas,Greiner, Jochen,Krause, Martin G. H. (2023-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2023A&A...672A..53P Surround and Squash: the impact of superbubbles on the interstellar medium in Scorpius-Centaurus OB2 - Krause, Martin G. H., Burkert, Andreas,Diehl, Roland,Fierlinger, Katharina,Gaczkowski, Benjamin,Kroell, Daniel,Ngoumou, Judith,Roccatagliata, Veronica,Siegert, Thomas,Preibisch, Thomas (2018-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018A&A...619A.120K The catalog of variable sources detected by INTEGRAL. I. Catalog and techniques - Telezhinsky, I., Eckert, D.,Savchenko, V.,Neronov, A.,Produit, N.,Courvoisier, T. J. -L. (2010-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010A&A...522A..68T The Deep Look at the Hard X-Ray Sky: The Swift-INTEGRAL X-Ray (SIX) Survey - Bottacini, Eugenio, Ajello, Marco,Greiner, Jochen (2012-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012ApJS..201...34B The first GRB survey of the IBIS/PICsIT archive - Bianchin, V., Mereghetti, S.,Guidorzi, C.,Foschini, L.,Vianello, G.,Malaguti, G.,Di Cocco, G.,Gianotti, F.,Schiavone, F. (2011-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011A&A...536A..46B The Galactic Bulge Diffuse Emission in Broadband X-Rays with NuSTAR - Perez, Kerstin, Krivonos, Roman,Wik, Daniel R. (2019-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019ApJ...884..153P The Galactic ²⁶Al Emission Map as Revealed by INTEGRAL SPI - Bouchet, Laurent, Jourdain, Elisabeth,Roques, Jean-Pierre (2015-03-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015ApJ...801..142B The IBIS Soft Gamma-Ray Sky after 1000 Integral Orbits - Bird, A. J., Bazzano, A.,Malizia, A.,Fiocchi, M.,Sguera, V.,Bassani, L.,Hill, A. B.,Ubertini, P.,Winkler, C. (2016-03-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016ApJS..223...15B The INTEGRAL/IBIS AGN catalogue: an update - Malizia, A., Landi, R.,Molina, M.,Bassani, L.,Bazzano, A.,Bird, A. J.,Ubertini, P. (2016-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016MNRAS.460...19M The INTEGRAL/IBIS AGN catalogue - I. X-ray absorption properties versus optical classification - Malizia, A., Bassani, L.,Bazzano, A.,Bird, A. J.,Masetti, N.,Panessa, F.,Stephen, J. B.,Ubertini, P. (2012-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012MNRAS.426.1750M The spectral catalogue of INTEGRAL gamma-ray bursts. results of the joint IBIS/SPI spectral analysis - Bosnjak, Z., Gotz, D.,Bouchet, L.,Schanne, S.,Cordier, B. (2014-01-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014A&A...561A..25B Time Evolution of Flares in GRB 130925A: Jet Precession in a Black Hole Accretion System - Hou, Shu-Jin, Liu, Tong,Gu, Wei-Min,Lin, Da-Bin,Sun, Mou-Yuan,Wu, Xue-Feng,Lu, Ju-Fu (2014-01-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014ApJ...781L..19H Timing properties of gamma-ray bursts detected by SPI-ACS detector onboard INTEGRAL - Savchenko, V., Neronov, A.,Courvoisier, T. J. -L. (2012-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012A&A...541A.122S Type I X-ray Bursts Detected by the JEM-X Telescope Onboard the INTEGRAL Observatory in 2003-2015 - Chelovekov, I. V., Grebenev, S. A.,Mereminskiy, I. A.,Prosvetov, A. V. (2017-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017AstL...43..781C Unveiling the nature of INTEGRAL objects through optical spectroscopy. X. A new multi-year, multi-observatory campaign - Masetti, N., Parisi, P.,Palazzi, E.,Jimenez-Bailon, E.,Chavushyan, V.,McBride, V.,Rojas, A. F.,Steward, L.,Bassani, L.,Bazzano, A.,Bird, A. J.,Charles, P. A.,Galaz, G.,Landi, R.,Malizia, A.,Mason, E.,Minniti, D.,Morelli, L.,Schiavone, F.,Stephen, J. B.,Ubertini, P. (2013-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013A&A...556A.120M VerticaVertical position of the Sun with gamma-rays - Siegert, Thomas, (2019-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019A&A...632L...1S Water megamaser emission in hard X-ray selected AGN - Panessa, F., Castangia, P.,Malizia, A.,Bassani, L.,Tarchi, A.,Bazzano, A.,Ubertini, P. (2020-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020A&A...641A.162P X-ray absorption in INTEGRAL active galactic nuclei. Host galaxy inclination - Malizia, A., Bassani, L.,Stephen, J. B.,Bazzano, A.,Ubertini, P. (2020-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020A&A...639A...5M
Temporal Coverage	2008-12-26T19:37:41Z / 2009-07-30T16:46:47Z
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, Key Programme, 2026, 'AO-6 Key Programme 2: North Ecliptic Pole', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-witfjif