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Proposal ID 1020017
Obs ID 10200170001, 10200170002, 10200170017, 10200170018, 10200170019, 10200170020, 10200170021, 10200170022, 10200170023, 10200170024, 10200170025, 10200170026, 10200170027, 10200170028, 10200170029, 10200170030, 10200170031, 10200170032, 10200170049, 10200170050, 10200170051, 10200170052, 10200170053, 10200170054, 10200170055, 10200170056
Title ISA: INTEGRAL Spiral Arms Monitoring Program
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DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-hn4k778
Author Bodaghee
Abstract We propose to continue our Key Programme that consists of high-cadence monitoring of the inner spiral arms of the Galaxy with INTEGRAL paired with ToO observations of new transients with XMM-Newton and Swift. 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. The INTEGRAL Spiral Arms (ISA) program (25.6 ks per spacecraft revolution during visibility periods, for a total of 1.2 Ms) complements 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 feature a high density of obscured high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), including Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs), as well as other hard X-ray emitting sources (e.g. microquasars, low-mass X-ray binaries, and magnetars) that INTEGRAL is well-suited to finding thanks to its large field of view and angular resolution at high energies even in crowded regions of the sky. Mosaic images and source light curves in 2 energy bands for ISGRI and JEM-X are being provided to the community1 permitting rapid dissemination of results which enable prompt follow-up of interesting events. The ISA project represents the cornerstone of our ongoing study of transient and variable hard X-ray populations in the Milky Way.
Publications
Temporal Coverage 2013-09-21T02:33:52Z / 2014-09-09T19:29:57Z
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 2025-03-25T09:54:37Z
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, Bodaghee, 2025, 'ISA: INTEGRAL Spiral Arms Monitoring Program', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-hn4k778