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Exploring the Turbulent Universe.
INTEGRAL 4 years in orbit. INTEGRAL, weighting
about 4 tons, has been with a Russian Proton
rochet launched into an highly elliptical orbit
from Baikonur (Kazakhstan) on October 17, 2002
at 4.41 UT. The INTEGRAL principal aim is to
observe the Universe in the energy range from 15
keV to 10 MeV with good X-Ray sensitivity down
to 3 keV and monitoring capability in the
optical V band at 550 nm. It is an international
mission led by ESA with main instruments
produced by Italian, French and German
Institutes and Space Agencies with other EU
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INTEGRAL CROSS CALIBRATION
SUMMARY
10 Nov 2005, issue 1.0
L. Natalucci and S.Martinez Núñez,
on behalf of the IBIS PI team @IASF Rome
(PDF 500 kB).
The mission - ESA's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
is the most sensitive gamma-ray observatory ever launched. INTEGRAL is an ESA mission in cooperation with
Russia and the United States.>>
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Results of Two Years of INTEGRAL operation. A collection of scientific results mainly based on INTEGRAL data.
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Video gallery - IBIS overview. >>
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e Fisica Cosmica
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Credit: Bassani et al., astro-ph/0512015 v1
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