The INTEGRAL Galactic bulge monitoring program: the first 1.5 years

2007/01/09 by E. Kuulkers, S. E. Shaw, A. Paizis +18 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Black hole (networking) #Bulge #Galactic Center #Galaxy #Homogeneous #Neutron star #Optics #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Visibility #X-ray #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20066651

published as PoS Integral08:121,2008 · 27 pages, 42 figures, accepted for publication in A&A. Abstract abridged. Tables 3,4,6,7 appear at the end. Images have been compressed and are reduced in quality; original PostScript images can be retrieved from http://isdc.unige.ch/~kuulkers/bulge/

arxiv created 2007/01/09 · openalex publication_date 2007/01/22 · arxiv updated 2010/04/30 · openalex created_date 2018/03/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Aims.The Galactic bulge region is a rich host of variable high-energy point sources. Since 2005, February 17 we are monitoring the source activity in the Galactic bulge region regularly and frequently, i.e., about every three days, with the instruments onboard INTEGRAL. Thanks to the large field of view, the imaging capabilities and the sensitivity at hard X-rays, we are able to present for the first time a detailed homogeneous (hard) X-ray view of a sample of 76 sources in the Galactic bulge region.

Citations

• The Galactic Black Hole Transient H1743−322 during Outburst Decay: Connections between Timing Noise, State Transitions, and Radio Emission
• INTEGRAL observations of five sources in the Galactic Center region
• The EXOSAT medium-energy slew survey catalog
• X-ray spectral evolution of SAX J1747.0-2853 during outburst activity and confirmation of its transient nature
• INTEGRAL detection of a long powerful burst from SLX 1735-269
• Discovery of an X-Ray Pulsar in the Low-Mass X-Ray Binary 2A 1822−371
• The Rates of Type I X‐Ray Bursts from Transients Observed withRXTE: Evidence for Black Hole Event Horizons
• Orbital and Superorbital Periods of 1E 1740.7−2942 and GRS 1758−258
• The discovery of hard X-ray emission in the persistent flux of the Rapid Burster
• INTEGRAL observation of the accreting pulsar GX 1+4
• Hard X-ray light curves of high-mass X-ray binaries

Cited by

• Discovery of the 51.47-d orbital period in the supergiant fast X-ray transient XTE J1739−302 with INTEGRAL
• X-RAY SPECTRA OF THE HIGH-MASS X-RAY BINARY 4U 1700-37 USING BEPPOSAX, SUZAKU, AND RXTE OBSERVATIONS
• INTEGRAL,XMM-Newton and ESO/NTT identification of AX J1749.1-2733: an obscured and probably distant Be/X-ray binary
• Type I X-ray bursts, burst oscillations and kHz quasi-periodic oscillations in the neutron star system IGRâJ17191â2821