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Issue A&A Volume 411, Number 1, November III 2003 Special letters issue on: first science with integral Page(s) L53 - L57 Section Letters DOI 10.1051/0004-6361:20031172

A&A 411, L53-L57 (2003)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031172

Letter

The INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC)

T. J.-L. Courvoisier^{1, 2}, R. Walter^{1, 2}, V. Beckmann^{1, 3}, A. J. Dean⁴, P. Dubath^{1, 2}, R. Hudec⁵, P. Kretschmar^{1, 6}, S. Mereghetti⁷, T. Montmerle⁸, N. Mowlavi^{1, 2}, S. Paltani⁹, A. Preite Martinez¹⁰, N. Produit^{1, 2}, R. Staubert³, A. W. Strong⁶, J.-P. Swings¹¹, N. J. Westergaard¹², N. White¹³, C. Winkler¹⁴ and A. A. Zdziarski<sup>15

1</sup>  INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, Chemin d'Écogia 16, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
²  Geneva Observatory, Chemin des Maillettes 51, 1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
³  Universität Tübingen, Inst. für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Abt. Astronomie, Sand 1, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
⁴  Astronomy Group, Physics Department,University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
⁵  Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 25165 Ondrejov
⁶  Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85748 Garching, Germany
⁷  CNR-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Sez. di Milano "G. Ochialini", via Bassini 15, 20133 Milano, Italy
⁸  Service d'Astrophysique, Centre d'Études de Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
⁹  Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, BP 8, 13376 Marseille Cedex 12, France
¹⁰  Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale, Area di Ricerca di Tor Vergata, via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 00133 Roma, Italy
¹¹  Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Univ. de Liège, 17 allée du Six Août, 4000 Sart-Tilman Liège, Belgium
¹²  Danish Space Research Institute, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
¹³  Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 660, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
¹⁴  ESA-ESTEC, RSSD, PO Box 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
¹⁵  N. Copernicus Astronomical Ctr., Bartycka 18, 00716 Warsaw, Poland

(Received 9 July 2003 / Accepted 31 July 2003 )

Abstract
The INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC) provides the INTEGRAL data and means to analyse them to the scientific community. The ISDC runs a gamma ray burst alert system that provides the position of gamma ray bursts on the sky within seconds to the community. It operates a quick-look analysis of the data within few hours that detects new and unexpected sources as well as it monitors the instruments. The ISDC processes the data through a standard analysis the results of which are provided to the observers together with their data.

Key words: methods: data analysis -- gamma rays: observations

Offprint request: T. J.-L. Courvoisier, Thierry.Courvoisier@obs.unige.ch

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