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Proposal ID 0920015
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Title INTEGRAL Monitoring of the Inner Spiral Arms
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DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-2l13gx9
Author Bodaghee
Abstract A Key Programme is proposed for high-cadence monitoring of the inner spiral arms of the Galaxy with INTEGRAL paired with ToO observations of new transients with XMM-Newton (as well as with other telescopes). While these regions are already exposed thanks to the Galactic Plane Scans (GPS), many transients are being missed because of month-long gaps between scans of any particular region. Our proposed program (25.6 ks per revolution, when visible, for a total of 1.5 Ms during AO9) will complement the successful Galactic Bulge (GB) program by extending the monitored region of the Galaxy to the Inner Perseus/Norma Arm tangents on one side of the GB, and the Scutum/Sagittarius Arms on the other. These fields are ripe with obscured high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs), as well as other hard X-ray emitting sources (e.g. microquasars, low-mass X-ray binaries, bursters, and magnetars) that INTEGRAL is well-suited to finding thanks to its large field of view and angular resolution at high energies. Source light curves in 2 energy bands for ISGRI and JEM-X will be provided to the community permitting rapid dissemination of results which will enable prompt follow-up of interesting events. This program will have an immediate and lasting impact on studies of transient and variable hard X-ray populations.
Publications
Temporal Coverage 2012-02-07T10:06:06Z / 2013-10-21T17:16:37Z
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 2025-03-25T09:54:36Z
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, Bodaghee, 2025, 'INTEGRAL Monitoring of the Inner Spiral Arms', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-2l13gx9