INTEGRAL: the next major gamma-ray astronomy mission?

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Nov 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993spie.1945..112s&link_type=abstract

Proc. SPIE Vol. 1945, p. 112-123, Space Astronomical Telescopes and Instruments II, Pierre Y. Bely; James B. Breckinridge; Eds.

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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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