Issue |
A&A
Volume 519, September 2010
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Article Number | A107 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | Astronomical instrumentation | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200913814 | |
Published online | 20 September 2010 |
INTEGRAL/IBIS 7-year All-Sky Hard X-ray Survey*
I. Image reconstruction
1
Max-Planck-Institute für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85740 Garching bei München, Germany e-mail: krivonos@mpa-garching.mpg.de
2
Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997 Moscow, Russia
3
Excellence Universe Cluster, Munich Technical University, Boltzman-Str. 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
4
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Received:
7
December
2009
Accepted:
20
May
2010
This paper is the first in a series devoted to the hard X-ray whole sky survey performed by the INTEGRAL observatory over seven years. Here we present an improved method for image reconstruction with the IBIS coded mask telescope. The main improvements are related to the suppression of systematic effects that strongly limit sensitivity in the region of the Galactic plane (GP), especially in the crowded field of the Galactic center (GC). We extended the IBIS/ISGRI background model to take into account the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE). To suppress residual systematic artifacts on a reconstructed sky image, we applied nonparametric sky image filtering based on wavelet decomposition. The implemented modifications of the sky reconstruction method decrease the systematic noise in the ~20 Ms deep field of GC by ~44%, and practically remove it from the high-latitude sky images. New observational data sets, along with an improved reconstruction algorithm, allow us to conduct the hard X-ray survey with the best currently available minimal sensitivity 3.7 × 10-12 erg s-1 cm-2 ~ 0.26 mCrab in the 17-60 keV band at a 5σ detection level. The survey covers 90% of the sky down to the flux limit of 6.2 × 10-11 erg s-1 cm-2 (~4.32 mCrab) and 10% of the sky area down to the flux limit of 8.6 × 10-12 erg s-1 cm-2 (~0.60 mCrab).
Key words: methods: data analysis / methods: observational / techniques: image processing / surveys / X-rays: general / Galaxy: general
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