A tool for phase resolved spectroscopy with ISGRI

TL;DR

This paper introduces a software tool for the ISGRI instrument that simplifies and accelerates the process of phase-resolved spectroscopy and timing analysis of accreting binary systems from INTEGRAL data.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel software tool that streamlines phase-resolved spectroscopy and timing analysis for ISGRI data, improving efficiency over traditional imaging methods.

Findings

Enables fast extraction of light curves and pulse profiles.

Simplifies data reduction for phase-resolved spectroscopy.

Facilitates analysis of accreting binary systems.

Abstract

INTEGRAL observations provide a large amount of data on accreting binary systems. The interpretation of the spectral emission of these sources needs timing analysis and phase resolved spectroscopy, which are really cumbersome tasks if performed with tools based on the imaging extraction methods usually used for coded mask instruments. Here we present a software for the ISGRI instrument which allows to extract in a fast way, light curves, pulse profiles, and phase resolved spectra, making data reduction a much easier task.