The Sky behind Our Galaxy as Seen by Ibis on Integral
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چکیده
During the Core Programme, INTEGRAL has surveyed a large portion of the sky (around 9000 square degrees); although INTEGRAL is not optimized for extra-galactic studies its observations have nevertheless given us the opportunity to explore the sky behind our Galaxy, something which is impossible in some wavebands due to the presence of strong absorption. Preliminary results from this exploration are presented and compared with the pre-launch expectations. In particular, we detail all extragalactic detections obtained so far: 10 active galaxies and one cluster of galaxies. Of these sources, many have previously been studied at energies above 10-20 keV while a few are new hard X-ray discoveries. Since the number of detections is smaller than estimated on the basis of the IBIS/ISGRI sensitivity, it is likely that some of the new ISGRI sources found in this survey are extragalactic objects; a few of these are likely to be AGN and are described in detail.
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