The INTEGRAL mission
| العنوان: | The INTEGRAL mission |
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| المؤلفون: | G. Vedrenne, A. J. Dean, W. Hermsen, Niels Lund, Christoph Winkler, Bonnard J. Teegarden, Neil Gehrels, P. Ubertini, R. A. Sunyaev, J. A. Paul, A. Giménez, J. M. Mas-Hesse, V. Schönfelder, Thierry J.-L. Courvoisier, G. Di Cocco, Francois Lebrun, J. P. Roques, S. A. Grebenev, Giorgio G. C. Palumbo, Herbert W. Schnopper |
| المصدر: | Astronomy & Astrophysics. 411:L1-L6 |
| بيانات النشر: | EDP Sciences, 2003. |
| سنة النشر: | 2003 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physics, X-ray transient, Spectrometer, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Gamma-ray astronomy, Astrophysics, Galactic plane, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, Sky, Angular resolution, Ground segment, media_common |
| الوصف: | The ESA observatory INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) is dedicated to the fine spectroscopy (2.5 keV FWHM @ 1 MeV) and fine imaging (angular resolution: 12 arcmin FWHM) of celestial gamma-ray sources in the energy range 15 keV to 10 MeV with concurrent source monitoring in the X-ray ( keV) and optical (V -band, 550 nm) energy ranges. INTEGRAL carries two main gamma-ray instruments, the spectrometer SPI (Vedrenne et al. [CITE]) – optimized for the high-resolution gamma-ray line spectroscopy (20 keV–8 MeV), and the imager IBIS (Ubertini et al. [CITE]) – optimized for high-angular resolution imaging (15 keV–10 MeV). Two monitors, JEM-X (Lund et al. [CITE]) in the () keV X-ray band, and OMC (Mas-Hesse et al. [CITE]) in optical Johnson V -band complement the payload. The ground segment includes the Mission Operations Centre at ESOC, ESA and NASA ground stations, the Science Operations Centre at ESTEC and the Science Data Centre near Geneva. INTEGRAL was launched on 17 October 2002. The observing programme is well underway and sky exposure (until June 2003) reaches ~1800 ks in the Galactic plane. The prospects are excellent for the scientific community to observe the high energy sky using state-of-the-art gamma-ray imaging and spectroscopy. This paper presents a high-level overview of INTEGRAL. |
| تدمد: | 1432-0746 0004-6361 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::a49fddfe2b404e1063ec15117a69cb96Test https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20031288Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........a49fddfe2b404e1063ec15117a69cb96 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14320746 00046361 |
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