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Participant	Ubertini, Pietro
Institution	IAPS, Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology-INAF - Via del cavaliere 100 - Rome - - Italy

Session	SO3	Accepted		Order	Time
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	INTEGRAL Highlights
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Abstract	ESA’s INTEGRAL Space Observatory has almost spent his first decade in orbit and has produced an unprecedented harvest of results in the soft gamma ray range, ranging from the inventory of the high energy sources, to the discovery of hundreds of variable soft gamma-ray sources to the mapping of the Al and annihilation line in the Galaxy and the evidence of polarised gamma ray emission from the Crab Nebula. Recently, INTEGRAL observing strategy has supplemented the deep observations of the Galactic Centre and Plane with the deep observation of the extragalactic sky demonstrating soft (15 keV to 10 MeV) and high energy gamma FERMI sky are barely overlapped. The IBIS Survey Catalogue 4 (A. J. Bird, A. Bazzano, L. Bassani, et al., APJS, 186,1, 2010) contains more than 700 sources detected from 20 keV up to several hundreds of keV while the recent data has increased the total number of observed sources to almost 1500. The talk will review the latest INTEGRAL discoveries with particular regard to new galactic sources emitting at high energy and their relation with the AGILE and FERMI sky, and a new view on the close-by absorbed AGN (z≤1).

Session	SO5	Accepted		Order	Time
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	Cospar Working Group, A road map for Space Astronomy in the next decades: the dark age is starting
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Abstract	The use of space techniques continues to play a key role in the advance of astrophysics by providing access to the entire electromagnetic spectrum from the radio observations to the high energy gamma rays. The increasing size, complexity and cost of large space observatories places a growing emphasis on international collaboration. Furthermore, the coordination of existing and future datasets from space and ground based observatories is an emerging mode of powerful and relatively inexpensive collaboration to address problems that can only be tackled by the application of large multi-wavelength datasets. If the present set of space and ground-based astronomy facilities is today impressive and complete, with space and ground based astronomy telescopes complementing nicely, the scenario becomes concerning and critical in the next 10-20 years. In fact, only a few main space missions are planned, possibly restricted to JWST and, perhaps, WFIRST and SPICA, since no other main facilities are already recommended. The COSPAR President, Prof. Roger Bonnet, announced the establishment of a COSPAR Working Group in the occasion of the 38th Assembly, held in Bremen on July 2010, confirmed by the new President Prof. Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami. The aim of this Working Group on “Future of Space Astronomy” was to establish a roadmap for the future of main space missions which would complement the future of large ground-based telescopes. An update of the COSPAR WG conclusions will be given, in particular considering the scenario opened by the recent ESA decision on the next L-Class mission selection.