Movies
The 3D view of the high-energy sources our Galaxy, as detected by INTEGRAL and for which distances are known, is based on the 4th IBIS/ISGRI Soft Gamma-ray Survey catalog by Bird et al. 2010, ApJS 186, 1.
The distances were taken from the catalog by Bodaghee et al. 2007, A&A 467, 585 and 2012 (private communication). We note that the uncertainties in the distances can range between 0.1 and a few kiloparsecs, depending on the class of source and method of distance determination.
The size and colours of the sources are based on the intensities in the 17-35-60-100 keV bands taken from the All-Sky Hard X-ray Survey by Krivonos et al. 2010, A&A 523, 61 and 2012 (private communication).
More (INTEGRAL) movies can be viewed on the INTEGRAL YouTube channel.
Here are stills from the 3D-Extended version:
Credits: ESA - C. Carreau & E. Kuulkers
