Since the galactic center is currently visible for INTEGRAL most of
the observations taking place this month are of the Galactic
Center. The image is an IBIS/ISGRI image of the Galactic Centre in the
20-40 keV band. The analysis of IBIS/ISGRI data is based on GCDE
(Galactic Center Deep Exposure) and GPS (Galactic Plane Scan) data
from revolution 30 to 64 i.e. January 11th to April 22nd, 2003 for a
total of one thousand pointings (about 2 Msec exposure). Not all the
sources are labeled for clarity.
This figure is taken from a paper by Paizis et al.
(
http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0308038), describing the
first INTEGRAL results on persistent neutron star binaries.
This paper will appear in a special Astronomy & Astrophysics
issue devoted to INTEGRAL.
