About the INTEGRAL Science Operations Centre (ISOC)

 

The INTEGRAL Science Operations Centre (ISOC) is responsible for the definition of scientific operations including the instrument configuration for each observation, the mission planning and implementation of the observing programme.

In summary, the ISOC:

• prepares AO's for observations, receives proposals and assesses their technical feasibility and makes these assessments available to the Time Allocation Committee.
• is responsible for the mission planning (scheduling) and implementation of the observing programme.
• is responsible for the definition of scientific operations including the instrument configuration for each observation
• will decide on the generation of an alert for Targets of Opportunity in order to change/interrupt the observing programme (responsibility of Project Scientist).
• will keep an archive of all scientific data as created and maintained by the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC).

 

SCIENCE AT ISOC

In parallel to their operational duties, the INTEGRAL Scientists are involved in research acitvities. A summary of their fields of interest can be found here.

 

ISOC at ESAC

The ISOC is located at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), situated at Villafranca del Castillo near Madrid (Spain). Click here for updated driving directions.

 

Postal Address:	INTEGRAL Science Operations Centre European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) P.O. Box 78 28691 Villanueva de la Cañada (Madrid) Spain
Homepage:	http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/integral
Helpdesk:	inthelp@sciops.esa.int
E-mail:	firstname.lastname@esa.int
Telephone:	+34 918 131 xxx (see below for extension)

 

NAME	FUNCTION	PHONE	MAILCODE
Arpizou, Michelle	Secretary	252	SCI-O
Bélanger, Guillaume	Operations & Archive Scientist	394	SCI-OOG
Kretschmar, Peter	ISOC Manager	399	SCI-OOG
Kuulkers, Erik	Project & Operations Scientist	+31 71 565 8470	SCI-OOG
Salazar Doñate, Emilio	Software Engineer	433	SCI-OOG
Sanchez, Celia	Operations Scientist	375	SCI-OOG
	ISOC Planning room	223