Integral's view of Cygnus X-1
Copyright: ESA. Illustration by the Integral team and ESA/ECF
Integral has four instruments that all point in the same direction so that they simultaneously observe the same celestial objects. They are the Imager on Board the Integral Satellite (IBIS), the Spectrometer on Integral (SPI), the Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC), and the Joint European X-ray Monitor (JEM-X). Simultaneous observation allows us to match their data, giving more insight into the nature of the celestial objects that Integral will be studying.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
