Identification and Analyses in Optical Light of Gamma-Ray Sources with Astronomical Archival Plates.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Astronomy Volume 2010, Article ID 618975, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2010/618975 Research Article Identification and Analyses in Optical Light of Gamma-Ray Sources with Astronomical Archival Plates ´ 1, 2 ˇ ´ 2 Rene Hudec and Milos Klıma 1Astronomical Institute, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, 25165 Ondrejov, Czech Republic ˇ 2 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, 16636 Prague, Czech Republic ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Rene Hudec, rene.hudec@ Received 13 June 2009; Accepted 2 September 2009 Academic Editor: Alberto J. Castro-Tirado ´ Copyright © 2010 R. Hudec and M. Klıma. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The ESA INTEGRAL satellite (International Gamma Ray Laboratory) launched in October 2002 continues to deliver valuable data about the gamma-ray sky. Nearly 450 gamma-ray sources have been detected so far mainly by the IBIS onboard instrument, and others are expected in the future. The first 3.5 years of INTEGRAL public and Core Program data have revealed more than 400 sources and this number is expected to increase to more than 500 in the future (Bird et al. 2007). Alternative method to identify and to analyze INTEGRAL gamma-ray sources using optical light and astronomical archival plates is described, together with additional results from ana