Second IBIS/ISGRI soft gamma-ray survey catalog

The scientific data set is based on more than 10Ms of high-quality observations performed during the first 2 years of Core Program and public IBIS/ISGRI observations, and covers 50% of the whole sky. The main aim of the first survey was to scan systematically, for the first time at energies above 20keV, the whole Galactic plane to achieve a limiting sensitivity of 1mCrab in the central radian.

The target of the second year of the INTEGRAL mission lifetime was to expand as much as possible our knowledge of the soft gamma-ray sky, with the same limiting sensitivity, to at least 50% of the whole sky, mainly by including a substantial coverage of extragalactic fields. This catalog comprises more than 200 high-energy sources detected in the energy range 20-100keV, including new transients not active during the first year of operation, faint persistent objects revealed with longer exposure time, and several Galactic and extragalactic sources in sky regions not observed in the first survey.