A dataset provided by the European Space Agency

Name: Regular and frequent INTEGRAL monitoring of the Galactic Bulge region
Published: 2026-03-05T13:05:59Z

Proposal ID	1420001
Obs ID	14200010001, 14200010002, 14200010003, 14200010004, 14200010005, 14200010006, 14200010007, 14200010008, 14200010009, 14200010010, 14200010011, 14200010012, 14200010013, 14200010014, 14200010015, 14200010016, 14200010017, 14200010018, 14200010019, 14200010020, 14200010021, 14200010022, 14200010023, 14200010024, 14200010025
Title	Regular and frequent INTEGRAL monitoring of the Galactic Bulge region
Download Data Associated to the proposal	https://isla.esac.esa.int/tap/download/bundle?format=ascii_curl&product_id=prop_id:1420001
DOI	https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-es353om
Author	Kuulkers
Abstract	The Galactic bulge region is a rich host of variable X-ray and gamma-ray point sources. Since AO-3 we are monitoring about 190 of them with one hexagonal pattern about every 3 days, whenever the region is visible by INTEGRAL. Due to the high scientific return and in order to preserve the continuity with respect to past observations of this ever-changing region, we propose to continue our successful program. Our main aim is to monitor and actively report on any (transient) activity; in the long run the program is providing regular and homogeneous inputs about the soft and hard-X-ray (transient) population, as well as on the accretion regimes in the various types of binary systems. As a service to the scientific community, the observations are to be made public. We will continue to make the IBIS/ISGRI and JEM-X quick-look results publicly available through the web soon after the data have been taken, to preserve the possibility for rapid follow-up by the community.
Publications	A catalogue of intermediate-duration Type I X-ray bursts observed with the INTEGRAL satellite - Alizai, K., Chenevez, J.,Brandt, S.,Lund, N. (2020-03-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.494.2509A A faint outburst of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1748.9-2021 in NGC 6440 - Pintore, F., Sanna, A.,Riggio, A.,Di Salvo, T.,Mereghetti, S.,Bozzo, E.,Sanchez-Fernandez, C.,Burderi, L.,Iaria, R. (2018-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018MNRAS.479.4084P Burst-induced coronal cooling in GS 1826-24. The clock wagging its tail - Sanchez-Fernandez, C., Kajava, J. J. E.,Poutanen, J.,Kuulkers, E.,Suleimanov, V. F. (2020-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020A&A...634A..58S Catalog of Outbursts of Neutron Star Low-mass X-Ray Binaries - Heinke, Craig O., Zheng, Junwen,Maccarone, Thomas J.,Degenaar, Nathalie,Bahramian, Arash,Sivakoff, Gregory R.,Toor, Simrat (2025-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2025ApJS..279...57H 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 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 High-energy Jet Emission from GRS 1758-258 and 1E 1740.7-2942 with INTEGRAL? - Rodi, James, Bazzano, Angela,Ubertini, Pietro (2025-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2025ApJ...982..145R IGR J17329-2731: The birth of a symbiotic X-ray binary - Bozzo, E., Bahramian, A.,Ferrigno, C.,Sanna, A.,Strader, J.,Lewis, F.,Russell, D. M.,di Salvo, T.,Burderi, L.,Riggio, A.,Papitto, A.,Gandhi, P.,Romano, P. (2018-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018A&A...613A..22B IGR J17445-2747{mdash}Yet another X-ray burster in the galactic bulge - Mereminskiy, I. A., Grebenev, S. A.,Sunyaev, R. A. (2017-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017AstL...43..656M INTEGRAL Observations of Magnetars - Pacholski, Dominik Patryk, Ducci, Lorenzo,Topinka, Martin,Mereghetti, Sandro (2025-01-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2025AN....34640109P Low mass X-ray binaries in the Inner Galaxy: implications for millisecond pulsars and the GeV excess - Haggard, Daryl, Heinke, Craig,Hooper, Dan,Linden, Tim (2017-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017JCAP...05..056H 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 New interpretation of the two hard X-ray sources IGR J17503-2636 and IGR J17507-2647 - Sidoli, L., Sguera, V.,Esposito, P.,Sathyaprakash, R.,Ponti, G.,Mondal, S.,Bird, A. J. (2025-01-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2025A&A...693A..45S Onset of Photospheric Impacts and Helioseismic Waves in X9.3 Solar Flare of 2017 September 6 - Sharykin, Ivan N., Kosovichev, Alexander G. (2018-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018ApJ...864...86S On the nature of the soft I3-ray emission in the hard state of the black hole transient GRS 1716-249 - Bassi, T., Malzac, J.,Del Santo, M.,Jourdain, E.,Roques, J. -P.,D Ai, A.,Miller-Jones, J. C. A.,Belmont, R.,Motta, S. E.,Segreto, A.,Testa, V.,Casella, P. (2020-03-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.494..571B Searching for orbital period modulation in X-ray observations of the symbiotic X-ray binary GX 1+4 - Klawin, Moritz, Ducci, Lorenzo,Mirac Serim, M.,Santangelo, Andrea,Ferrigno, Carlo,Bozzo, Enrico (2024-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024A&A...692A..19K ⁴⁴Ti ejecta in young supernova remnants - Weinberger, Christoph, Diehl, Roland,Pleintinger, Moritz M. M.,Siegert, Thomas,Greiner, Jochen (2020-06-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020A&A...638A..83W The efficiency of nuclear burning during thermonuclear (Type I) bursts as a function of accretion rate - Cavecchi, Y., Galloway, D. K.,Goodwin, A. J.,Johnston, Z.,Heger, A. (2020-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.499.2148C The First Insight-HXMT Localization Catalog of Short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts: The First Six Years - Xiao, Shuo, Zhang, Yan-Ting,Wang, Yue,Zhang, Yan-Qiu,Xiong, Shao-Lin,Zhang, Shuang-Nan,Zheng, Shi-Jie,Zhang, Jin-Peng,Zhang, Peng,Li, Cheng-Kui,Li, Xiao-Bo,Yi, Shu-Xu,Zhang, Zhen,Li, Bing,Feng, Hua,Liu, Cong-Zhan,Ge, Ming-Yu,Li, Xu-Fang,Li, Zheng-Wei,Xu, Yu-Peng,Wen, Xiang-Yang,Sun, Jian-Chao,Tao, Lian,Yi, Qi-Bin,Cai, Ce,Zhao, Yi,Xue, Wang-Chen,Liu, Jia-Cong,Zheng, Chao,Wang, Chen-Wei,Tan, Wen-Jun,Tuo, You-Li,Song, Li-Ming,Lu, Fang-Jun,Li, Ti-Pei (2025-06-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2025ApJS..278...60X 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 Unveiling the short and faint X-ray transient nature of IGR J17419-2802 - Sguera, V., Sidoli, L. (2024-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024A&A...690A.260S XMMU J181227.8-181234: a new ultracompact X-ray binary candidate - Goodwin, A. J., Galloway, D. K.,in t Zand, J. J. M.,Kuulkers, E.,Bilous, A.,Keek, L. (2019-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019MNRAS.486.4149G X-Ray Observations of the Isolated Black Hole Candidate OGLE-2011-BLG-0462 and Other Collapsed Objects Discovered through Gravitational Microlensing - Mereghetti, S., Sidoli, L.,Ponti, G.,Treves, A. (2022-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2022ApJ...934...62M
Temporal Coverage	2017-02-13T05:21:00Z / 2017-10-26T16:02:15Z
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	2026-03-05T13:05:59Z
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-es353om