INTEGRAL/Spectral Imager Galactic Center Survey

The INTEGRAL observatory (Winkler et al. 2003, A&A, 411, L1) was launched in October 2002. The spectrograph SPI (Vedrenne et al. 2003, A&A, 411, L63) consists of 19 Germanium detectors and is capable of imaging in the 20 - 8000 keV band because of a coded mask. Part of the core program of the INTEGRAL mission is a study of the Galactic Centre, the Galactic Centre Deep Exposure (GCDE). The SPI significance map is based on the public GCDE data and uses data in the 20 - 40 keV energy range. The analysis of the data was done using the SPIROS software (Skinner & Connell 2003, A&A, 411, L123). This software uses the 'Iterative Removal of Sources' technique in order to find the most significant sources. In the output significance map the sources found in this process are put on top of the residual map as points with a FWHM of 1 degree.

Current data respresent the combination of all public observations as of September 1, 2004. Provenance: INTEGRAL Science Data Center, Geneva, Switzerland. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/nasa.heasarc/skyview/integralspi_gc
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Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/integralspi_gc
Provenance
Creator INTEGRAL Science Data Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Publisher NASA/GSFC HEASARC
Contributor Skyview Project
Publication Year 2024
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics