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The
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INTEGRAL
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The INTEGRAL Project

The INTEGRAL project is the next ESA M2 mission which is dedicated to the fine spectroscopy and imaging of celestial gamma-ray sources. It is an observatory mission with only 25% of the time being PI time.

The INTEGRAL payload consists of 4 main instruments :

SPI - A Germanium gamma ray spectrometer
IBIS - A high angular resolution imager
JEM-X - The X-ray monitor
OMC - An optical monitoring Camera

A further 'instrument' is the INTEGRAL Science Data Center which will assist observers in the reduction and interpretation of their data.

Southampton INTEGRAL People

The Southampton team is currently involved in both the IBIS instrument, Science Data Centre and and the INTEGRAL Mass Model Project. The INTEGRAL team at Southampton currently consists of 5 members of staff and 4 research students, although we hope to increase that number in the near future. The members of staff are :

Professor Tony Dean - Professor in the Physics Department
Dr Tony Bird - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Fan Lei - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Jon Lockley - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Rodolfo Gurriaran - Postdoctoral Research Fellow

and the research students are :

Chris Lawton - Working on novel CsI(Tl) detectors.
Colin Ferguson - Working on modelling of space instruments.
Angela Malizia - Working on hard X-ray sky surveys.
Charlotte Perfect - Working on modelling of gamma-ray detectors

The Southampton IBIS Involvement

The Southampton group originally developed much of the concept for the imager on INTEGRAL, and still are involved in what has now become the IBIS instrument. Tony Bird is a Co-I on the IBIS team with involvement in the following areas:

Calibration planning
Calibration software
Scientific design of the in-flight calibrator
Veto system design

For more information see the Southampton IBIS Homepage, or the specific pages related to the calibration of IBIS.

The INTEGRAL Science Data Center

Southampton is also involved in the ISDC, with a Co-I position with responsibility to co-ordinate the simulation activities within the ISDC and the rest of the science ground segment.

The INTEGRAL Mass Model

The INTEGRAL Mass Model project is primarily aimed at providing an independent and uniform assessment of the INTEGRAL payload for ESA. The project is being run by Southampton. Click here for more information on the Mass Model project.

INTEGRAL WWW Sites

ESA pages	INTEGRAL project home page
	Overview of the INTEGRAL Payload
SPI Pages	Spectrometer page at MPE Garching, Germany
IBIS Pages	IBIS home page at IAS Frascati, Italy
	IBIS page at Southampton University
	IBIS page at IAAT-Tuebingen
	IBIS information TeSRE Bologna, Italy
JEM-X Pages	X-Ray Monitor home page at DSRI Copenhagen, Denmark
OMC Pages	Optical Monitoring Camera home page at INTA Madrid, Spain
ISDC Pages	INTEGRAL Science Data Centre at Versoix (near Geneva), Switzerland

Other Useful Pages

The ESA Projects page.

HEASARC

This page is maintained by Tony Bird. It was last modified 21/7/97

Any problems/suggestions please send comments to ajb@astro.soton.ac.uk