INTEGRAL results on gamma-ray bursts and polarization of hard X-ray sources

Diego Götz , Christian Gouiffès , Jérôme Rodriguez , Philippe Laurent (1) , Elisabeth Jourdain (2) , Jean-Pierre Roques (2) , Sandro Mereghetti , Alexander Lutovinov , Volodymyr Savchenko , Lorraine Hanlon , Antonio Martin-Carrillo , Paul Moran

1 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
2 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie

In this paper we first review the results obtained by the INTEGRAL mission in the domain of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), thanks to the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System, which is able to deliver near real-time alerts for GRBs detected within the IBIS field of view. More than 120 GRBs have been detected to date and we summarize their properties here. In the second part of this review we focus on the polarimetric results obtained by IBIS and SPI on GRBs and Galactic compact objects.

Keywords: Gamma-rays; Gamma-Ray Burts; Compact objects; Black hole binaries; Polarization

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Diego Götz, Christian Gouiffès, Jérôme Rodriguez, Philippe Laurent, Elisabeth Jourdain, et al.. INTEGRAL results on gamma-ray bursts and polarization of hard X-ray sources. New Astronomy Reviews, 2019, 87, pp.101537. ⟨10.1016/j.newar.2020.101537⟩. ⟨insu-03674377⟩