INTEGRAL: status of the mission - after 10 years
Christoph Winkler
TL;DR
The paper reviews the INTEGRAL gamma-ray observatory's status after 10 years, highlighting its ongoing scientific achievements and operational health beyond its initial mission lifetime.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive update on INTEGRAL's operational status, scientific results, and ongoing contributions to high-energy astrophysics after a decade of operation.
Findings
INTEGRAL remains in excellent health after 10 years.
It continues to produce significant discoveries in gamma-ray astronomy.
Operational beyond its original 5-year design lifetime.
Abstract
The ESA gamma-ray observatory INTEGRAL, launched on 17 October 2002, continues to produce a wealth of discoveries and new results on compact high energy Galactic objects,nuclear gamma-ray line emission, diffuse line and continuum emission, cosmic background radiation, AGN, high energy transients and sky surveys. Ten years after launch, thespacecraft, ground segment and payload are in excellent state-of-health, and INTEGRAL is continuing its scientific operations well beyond its 5-year technical design lifetime until, at least, 31December 2014. This papersummarizes the current status of INTEGRAL.
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