What's New
Preliminary statistics on the proposals that have been received in answer to INTEGRAL's 7th Announcement of Opportunity are available.
On 19 February, following exit from a perigee passage, another SPI Ge detector was lost.
INTEGRAL has observed as a public TOO the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E1547.0-5408, which has recently shown intense bursting activity.
ESA has released the 7th Announcement of Opportunity for observing proposals with INTEGRAL. The deadline for proposals is February 20, 2009. Additional information can be found on the ESA INTEGRAL website and on the "Proposals and Tools" page of the INTEGRAL US GOF.
It has been decided to extend the duration of the ongoing AO-6 cycle by two months, until 16 October 2009. The duration of AO-7 will be extended by 2.5 months, it will therefore last from October 2009 until end of December 2010. Subsequent AO's are expected to be annual again.
INTEGRAL celebrated six successful years in space today! Instruments and spacecraft are continuing to perform well and the scientific output keeps the community busy.
INTEGRAL has observed the black hole X-ray transient system H 1743-322 as a public TOO. For details see web page linked above.
At its meeting at ESAC on June 11 and 12, 2008, the INTEGRAL User Group recommended a new scheme for the distribution of the Open Time that means significant changes for the organization of AO-7 and future AOs.
NASA has announced the INTEGRAL AO-6 US Guest Observer Program. Details of this program can be found on our "Proposals and Tools" webpage.
The INTEGRAL AO-6 General Programme, as recommended by the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) and approved on the 3rd of June by the ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. David Southwood) has been released.
November 13, 2007
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ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) has approved extending mission
operations for INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton until December 31, 2012.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ESA has announced the
AO-5 observing program and notified the PIs of the accepted
proposals.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ESA
has announced the schedule for AO-5. The AO will be released on
March 12, 2007 with proposals due on April 20, 2007.
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The INTEGRAL
AO-4 General Observing Program has been released and can be found
on the ESA website.
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The US INTEGRAL Users Committee held a meeting at NASA/GSFC on
February 21, 2006. Presentations made at this meeting are available
here.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Last updated:Tuesday, 05-May-2009 15:28:52 EDT .