What's New

November 13, 2007

ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) has approved extending mission operations for INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton until December 31, 2012.

ESA has released the Announcement of Opportunity for Key Programme Proposals for AO-6. The deadline for proposals is November 30, 2007. Additional information can be found on the ESA INTEGRAL website on on our Proposals & Tools page.

The ISDC has released version 7.0 of the OSA software. The main changes and improvements in the new version can be found in a special ISDC newsletter issue. OSA 7.0 is also available for download from our "Data Analysis" page.

ESA is holding a Five Years of INTEGRAL Science Workshop in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy on October 17-19, 2007. Further information can e found on this website.

ESA has announced the AO-5 observing program and notified the PIs of the accepted proposals.

ESA has the released preliminary statistics on the proposals received for AO-5. There were a total of 160 proposals received. Of those, 85 were associated with the Key Program. The total requested observing time (75.4 Msec) was a factor of 5.89 larger than the 12.8 Msec available. For more details see the ESA INTEGRAL website.

ESA has released the INTEGRAL 5th Announcement of Opportunity (AO-5). Proposals are due on April 20, 2007 with selections announced in June 2007. Further details can be found on the ESA website and our Proposals and Tools page.

ESA has chosen the observations programs for the AO-5 Key Programme. They include 2 Msec observations of the Galactic Center, the North Ecliptic Pole, and the Cygnus region. Further details can be found on our "Proposals and Tools" page.

ESA has announced the schedule for AO-5. The AO will be released on March 12, 2007 with proposals due on April 20, 2007.

The INTEGRAL AO-4 General Observing Program has been released and can be found on the ESA website.

The US INTEGRAL Users Committee held a meeting at NASA/GSFC on February 21, 2006. Presentations made at this meeting are available here.

The ISDC has released version 5.1 of the Off-line Scientific Analysis (OSA) software. It is now available for download from our Data Analysis web page.

The INTEGRAL US Guest Observer Facility conducted a two day workshop on INTEGRAL data analysis on November 14-15, 2005 at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. More information can be found on the workshop web page.

The HEASARC mirror of the INTEGRAL Public Data Archive at the ISDC is now open for FTP access.

A SPI and IBIS Bright Source catalog, based on the public data up to revolution 76, is now available.

The INTEGRAL Public Data Archive at the ISDC opened on July 19, 2004. By agreement with ESA and the ISDC, the public data archive will be mirrored at the HEASARC, in order to facilitate ease of distribution, notably for U.S. based researchers. The HEASARC W3Browse facility will be the interface to the archive at either site. The HEASARC archive will open by September 1, 2004.

The evaluation of stage-II proposals to NASA for support of US INTEGRAL AO-2 Guest Observations was completed in March 2004. Notification letters have been issued to all proposers, and the grant administration process is underway.

The level of US participation in the INTEGRAL Guest Observer Program remained significant. 23% of all ESA-approved AO-2 programs had US PIs and 37% US participation as PIs or Co-Is.

The INTEGRAL  Announcement of Opportunity for observation cycle 2 (AO-2) was released on July 15, 2003.

A special issue of A&A, describing the INTEGRAL mission and instruments, as well as the first scientific results is in preparation.