The INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory

INTEGRAL, launched in October 2002 aboard a Russian Proton rocket, is providing a new insight into the most violent and exotic objects of the Universe, such as neutron stars, active galactic nuclei and supernovae. INTEGRAL is also helping us to understand processes such as the formation of new chemical elements and the mysterious gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic phenomena in the Universe. Environments of extreme temperature and density, near the event-horizons of black holes, are a major topic of study with INTEGRAL.

These studies are possible thanks to INTEGRAL's combination of fine spectroscopy and imaging of gamma-ray emissions in the energy range of 15 keV to 10 MeV and concurrent monitoring in X-ray (4-35 keV) using JEM-X, and optical (500-600 nm) bands, using OMC.

A project of the European Space Agency INTEGRAL, serves an international Guest Observer community. Participation by U.S. astronomers is supported by a Guest Observer Facility (GOF) at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).

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INTEGRAL News & Science Results

High energy observations of the newly discovered burster millisecond pulsar IGR J17511-3057 (September 18, 2009)

GRB 090817 - a special Gamma-Ray Burst for INTEGRAL (August 18, 2009)

Mystery of Galactic annihilation-line emission solved? (July 8, 2009)

Magnetar observed during outburst thanks to rapid response of INTEGRAL (January 27, 2009)

XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL clues on magnetic powerhouses (November 14, 2008)

Faint gamma-ray bursts do actually exist (October 13, 2008)

INTEGRAL locates origin of high-energy emission from Crab Nebula (August 29, 2008)

Latest News

INTEGRAL's AO-7 has started (19 October 2009)
Switch from JEM-X1 to JEM-X2 and 14th SPI annealing.
Winners of ESA's INTEGRAL competition (18 October 2009)
Students from India and South Africa have been selected as the winners of the European Space Agency's 'Be an INTEGRAL astronomer' competition.

INTEGRAL AO-7 Data Rights Proposals approved (2 October 2009)
The ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. David Southwood) has approved the recommendation of the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) for proposals to obtain data rights to targets within AO-7 observations.

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INTEGRAL Public Data Archive Status

The HEASARC mirror to the INTEGRAL Public Data Archive now contains data through the November 7, 2009 release. The latest release consists of data from revolutions 724, 726, and 728.

The next scheduled public data release is November 25, 2009.

ISDC Public Data Release Schedule.

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