INTEGRAL: the next major gamma-ray astronomy mission?

Gerald K. Skinner; S. Bergeson-Willis; T. Courvoisier; Anthony J. Dean; Philippe Durouchoux; N. Eismont; Neil A. Gehrels; Jonathan E. Grindlay; William A. Mahoney; James L. Matteson; Brian McBreen; Oscar Pace; Thomas A. Prince; Volker Schoenfelder; Rashid Sunyaev; B. Swanenburg; Bonnard J. Teegarden; Pietro Ubertini; Gilbert Vedrenne; Gabriele E. Villa; Sergio Volonte; Christoph Winkler

doi:10.1117/12.158753

1 November 1993 INTEGRAL: the next major gamma-ray astronomy mission?

Gerald K. Skinner, S. Bergeson-Willis, T. Courvoisier, Anthony J. Dean, Philippe Durouchoux, N. Eismont, Neil A. Gehrels, Jonathan E. Grindlay, William A. Mahoney, James L. Matteson, Brian McBreen, Oscar Pace, Thomas A. Prince, Volker Schoenfelder, Rashid Sunyaev, B. Swanenburg, Bonnard J. Teegarden, Pietro Ubertini, Gilbert Vedrenne, Gabriele E. Villa, Sergio Volonte, Christoph Winkler

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Proceedings Volume 1945, Space Astronomical Telescopes and Instruments II; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.158753
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is a proposed joint ESA/NASA/Russia gamma-ray astronomy mission which will provide both imaging and spectroscopy. It is currently at the final stages of an ESA phase-A study which it is hoped will lead to it being adopted during 1993 as the second 'medium-class' mission within ESA's Horizon 2000 plan. Launched in less than 10 years time it will be the successor to the current generation of gamma-ray spacecraft, NASA's Compton Observatory (GRO) and the Soviet- French Granat/Sigma mission. The baseline is to have two main instruments covering the photon energy range 50 keV to 10 MeV, one concentrating on high-resolution spectroscopy, the other emphasizing imaging. In addition there will be two monitors--an X-ray monitor which will extend the photon energy range continuously covered down to a few keV, and an Optical Transient Camera which will search for optical emission from gamma-ray bursts.

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Gerald K. Skinner, S. Bergeson-Willis, T. Courvoisier, Anthony J. Dean, Philippe Durouchoux, N. Eismont, Neil A. Gehrels, Jonathan E. Grindlay, William A. Mahoney, James L. Matteson, Brian McBreen, Oscar Pace, Thomas A. Prince, Volker Schoenfelder, Rashid Sunyaev, B. Swanenburg, Bonnard J. Teegarden, Pietro Ubertini, Gilbert Vedrenne, Gabriele E. Villa, Sergio Volonte, and Christoph Winkler "INTEGRAL: the next major gamma-ray astronomy mission?", Proc. SPIE 1945, Space Astronomical Telescopes and Instruments II, (1 November 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.158753

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