INTEGRAL Picture Of the Month
February 2002

INTEGRAL POM
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The first images of a real X-ray source (Am 241) obtained with the two JEM-X instruments after installation on INTEGRAL.

The source is not an X-ray star, but a radioactive source suspended in a crane 5 meter above the satellite. The image (using 30 keV escape peak photons) from JEM-X1 is green that from JEM-X2 is purple. At 5 meter distance the two image fields only partly overlap, but the two instruments agree within a couple of mm on the physical location of the source.

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