ESA Integral

Happy 22nd birthday, INTEGRAL!

On 17 October 2002 INTEGRAL was launched into space. That means ESA's most sensitive gamma-ray observatory to date is 22 years old and still operating today! Happy Launch Anniversary Day!

We will celebrate this event next week with the INTEGRAL Workshop 2024:
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INTEGRAL ramping down in 2025

The ESA Science Programme Committee (SPC) has approved some limited operations of instruments during the first two months of the post-operations phase that starts on 1 January 2025. Science data taken during this period will be immediately public. The TOO-alert tool remains open for highly important TOOs with priority for gravitational wave event follow-ups until 28 February 2025. Science observations will ultimately end on 1 March 2025.

INTEGRAL Workshop 21-25 October 2024 at ESA/ESAC, Madrid, Spain:
22 Years of INTEGRAL: catching results and discoveries
Registration and Abstract submission open under:
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Integral has been crucial in our understanding of astrophysical phenomena over a wide energy and temporal range. This conference is the occasion to discuss novelties in high-energy astrophysics, new instrumental facilities, and innovative data-analysis methods. Anticipated lively interactions among participants will be harnessed to refine the plan for maximizing data exploitation now and in the decades to come.

Picture of the Month for May: A Magnetar Giant Flare in the nearby Starburst Galaxy M82:
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The figure shows the image obtained with the IBIS instrument in the 30-200 keV energy range, with the burst clearly visible at the position of M82. The positions of other galaxies are also indicated.

Picture of the Month for December: A strong gamma-ray burst detected by INTEGRAL has had a caused a pertubation in Earth's ionosphere. Read more here: cosmos.esa.int/web/integral/p…