caa a22 4500 445815795 CHVBK 20180317145228.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11214-011-9846-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11214-011-9846-0 INTEGRAL: Science Highlights and Future Prospects [Elektronische Daten] [Christoph Winkler, Roland Diehl, Pietro Ubertini, Jörn Wilms] ESA's hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray observatory INTEGRAL is covering the 3keV to 10MeV energy band, with excellent sensitivity during long and uninterrupted observations of a large field of view (∼100 square degrees), with ms time resolution and keV energy resolution. It links the energy band of pointed soft X-ray missions such as XMM-Newton with that of high-energy gamma-ray space missions such as Fermi and ground based TeV observatories. Key results obtained so far include the first sky map in the light of the 511keV annihilation emission, the discovery of a new class of high mass X-ray binaries and detection of polarization in cosmic high energy radiation. For the foreseeable future, INTEGRAL will remain the only observatory allowing the study of nucleosynthesis in our Galaxy, including the long overdue next nearby supernova, through high-resolution gamma-ray line spectroscopy. Science results to date and expected for the coming mission years span a wide range of high-energy astrophysics, including studies of the distribution of positrons in the Galaxy; reflection of gamma-rays off clouds in the interstellar medium near the Galactic Centre; studies of black holes and neutron stars particularly in high- mass systems; gamma-ray polarization measurements for X-ray binaries and gamma-ray bursts, and sensitive detection capabilities for obscured active galaxies with more than 1000 expected to be found until 2014. This paper summarizes scientific highlights obtained since INTEGRAL's launch in 2002, and outlines prospects for the INTEGRAL mission. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 High-energy astrophysics nationallicence Black holes nationallicence Neutron stars nationallicence Nucleosynthesis nationallicence Active galactic nuclei nationallicence Gamma-ray bursts nationallicence Space instrumentation nationallicence Winkler Christoph European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ, Noordwijk, The Netherlands aut Diehl Roland Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstr, 85748, Garching, Germany aut Ubertini Pietro INAF-IASF Roma, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Roma, Italy aut Wilms Jörn Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg, Astronomisches Institut, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sternwartstraße 7, 96049, Bamberg, Germany aut Space Science Reviews Springer Netherlands 161/1-4(2011-11-01), 149-177 0038-6308 161:1-4<149 2011 161 11214 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-011-9846-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-011-9846-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Winkler Christoph European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ, Noordwijk, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Diehl Roland Max-Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstr, 85748, Garching, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ubertini Pietro INAF-IASF Roma, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Roma, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wilms Jörn Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg, Astronomisches Institut, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sternwartstraße 7, 96049, Bamberg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Space Science Reviews Springer Netherlands 161/1-4(2011-11-01), 149-177 0038-6308 161:1-4<149 2011 161 11214 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer