Astronomy & Astrophysics

Editorial

The INTEGRAL mission

The INTEGRAL spacecraft – in-orbit performance

The INTEGRAL Mass Model – TIMM

INTEGRAL timing and localization performance

Absolute timing with IBIS, SPI and JEM-X aboard INTEGRAL - Crab main-pulse arrival times in radio, X-rays and high-energy γ-rays

Orbit design for launching INTEGRAL on the Proton/Block-DM launcher

Radiation environment along the INTEGRAL orbit measured with the IREM monitor

The INTEGRAL ground segment and its science operations centre

The INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC)

High-energy sources before INTEGRAL - INTEGRAL reference catalog

SPI: The spectrometer aboard INTEGRAL

INTEGRAL/SPI ground calibration

Monte Carlo simulations and generation of the SPI response

Neutron-induced nuclear reactions and degradation in germanium detectors

SPI/INTEGRAL in-flight performance

Testing SPI imaging of high-energy and extended sources

SPI instrumental background characteristics

First identification and modelling of SPI background lines

SPI-specific analysis method and software overview

The Spiros imaging software for the Integral SPI spectrometer

Maximum Entropy imaging with INTEGRAL/SPI data

IBIS: The Imager on-board INTEGRAL

ISGRI: The INTEGRAL Soft Gamma-Ray Imager

The Ibis-Picsit detector onboard Integral

IBIS Veto System - Background rejection, instrument dead time and zoning performance

IBIS ground calibration

In-flight calibration of the ISGRI camera

In-flight calibrations of IBIS/PICsIT

The INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI System Point Spread Function and Source Location Accuracy

Status of the Integral/IBIS telescope modeling and of the response matrices generation

IBIS/PICsIT in-flight performances

In-flight performance of the IBIS calibration unit

The in-flight background of IBIS/PICsIT

Systematic effects induced on IBIS detectors by background and inhomogeneity of the spatial response

Cosmic rays tracks on the PICsIT detector

The INTEGRAL/IBIS scientific data analysis

JEM–X: The X-ray monitor aboard INTEGRAL

X–ray facility for the ground calibration of the X–ray monitor JEM-X on board INTEGRAL

JEM–X inflight performance

JEM-X background models

JEM–X science analysis software

OMC: An Optical Monitoring Camera for INTEGRAL - Instrument description and performance

Optical design of the Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) of INTEGRAL

The CCD and readout electronics for the OMC instrument on Integral

The Input Catalogue for the OMC camera onboard INTEGRAL

The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System

INTEGRAL Spectrometer SPI's GRB detection capabilities - GRBs detected inside SPI's FoV and with the anticoincidence system ACS

GRB 021125: The first GRB imaged by INTEGRAL

GRB 021219: The first Gamma-Ray Burst localized in real time with IBAS

GRB 030227: The first multiwavelength afterglow of an INTEGRAL GRB

INTEGRAL results on GRB 030320: A long gamma-ray burst detected at the edge of the field of view

Time resolved spectroscopy of GRB 030501 using INTEGRAL

Gamma-ray bursts observed by the INTEGRAL-SPI anticoincidence shield: A study of individual pulses and temporal variability

Simultaneous observations of the quasar 3C 273 with INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton and RXTE

First results from the INTEGRAL galactic plane scans

First results from TOO observations of the Aql X-1 field with INTEGRAL

First INTEGRAL observations of eight persistent neutron star low mass X-ray binaries

IBIS performances during the Galactic Plane Scan - I. The Cygnus region

First results from the IBIS/ISGRI data obtained during the Galactic Plane Scan - II. The Vela region

SPI/INTEGRAL observation of the Cygnus region

INTEGRAL-RXTE observations of Cygnus X-1

IBIS preliminary results on Cygnus X-1 spectral and temporal characteristics

First IBIS results on the high energy emission of Cygnus X-2

First results of IBIS/ISGRI Cygnus X-3 monitoring during INTEGRAL PV phase

First INTEGRAL observations of Cygnus X-3

JEM-X observations of the Be/X-ray binary EXO 2030+375

First INTEGRAL observations of GRS 1915+105

INTEGRAL observations of the black hole candidate H 1743-322 in outburst

INTEGRAL discovery of a bright highly obscured galactic X-ray binary source IGR J16318-4848

X-ray observations of the Crab Pulsar and Nebula with JEM–X on INTEGRAL

First observations of the X-ray transient EXO 2030+375 with IBIS/ISGRI

INTEGRAL observations of SS433, a supercritically accreting microquasar with hard spectrum

Diffuse continuum emission from the inner Galaxy: First results from INTEGRAL/SPI

SPI measurements of Galactic Al

Early SPI/INTEGRAL constraints on the morphology of the 511 keV line emission in the 4th galactic quadrant