11 years observing with OMC, the Optical Monitoring Camera on board the INTEGRAL satellite
Abstract
The Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) on board the INTEGRAL observatory provides photometry in the Johnson V band, complementing the high-energy instruments which take images and spectra in hard X-rays and soft gamma--rays. After 11 years of mission operations, it has been possible to compile optical photometric light curves for a very large number of objects, with observational time spans of more than a decade and with a stable and consistent photometric calibration. In this contribution, we present a summary of some of the most interesting scientific results reached with INTEGRAL/OMC data, including the compilation of a catalogue of optically variable sources, some results on the analysis of temporal correlations between different energy ranges and the OMC monitoring of the supernova SN 2014J.
- Publication:
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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VIII
- Pub Date:
- May 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015hsa8.conf..435A