High Energy Sources Monitored with OMC

TL;DR

This paper discusses the use of the INTEGRAL satellite's Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) to observe and catalog optical counterparts of high-energy sources, enhancing multi-wavelength astrophysical studies.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive survey of optical counterparts for high-energy sources using OMC, with over 100 sources detected and their light curves made accessible online.

Findings

Detected optical counterparts for over 100 high-energy sources.

Provided calibrated light curves accessible via web portal.

Enhanced multi-wavelength data for high-energy astrophysics.

Abstract

The Optical Monitoring Camera on-board INTEGRAL (OMC) provides Johnson V band photometry of any potentially variable source within its field of view. Taking advantage of the INTEGRAL capabilities allowing the simultaneous observation of different kind of objects in the optical, X and gamma rays bands, we have performed a study of the optical counterparts of different high-energy sources. Up to now, OMC has detected the optical counterpart for more than 100 sources from the High Energy Catalog (Ebisawa et al., 2003). The photometrically calibrated light curves produced by OMC can be accessed through our web portal at: http://sdc.laeff.inta.es/omc