0320109

The Galactic Bulge region is a rich host of variable high-energyX-ray and gamma-ray point sources. In AO-3 there is much less focus on this interesting region within the Core Program. Because of the high scientific return and to preserve the continuity with respect to past observations of this ever-changing region we suggest to cover this gap in the observing program. Our approach however has some new appealing facets. We propose to observe the region more frequently and regularly than before i.e. during the entire visibility periods we suggest to do a single hexagonal dither observation per INTEGRAL revolution. As a service to the scientific community we want to make the IBIS/ISGRI and JEM-X light curves both in two energy bands per science window (i.e. per individual exposure of the hexagonal) and per hexagonal observation publicly available through the web as soon as the observations have been performed. Any new source which emerges from our observation will be announced promptly so that rapid follow-up by the communityis possible. Our team consists of scientists with expertise on a large range of topics. We intend to do a more in-depth analysis (spectra timing etc.) of sources of particular interest on short and long time scales. These sources include bright and relatively faint X-ray transients X-ray bursters persistent neutron star and black-hole candidate binarieshigh-mass X-ray binaries etc.. [truncated! Please see actual data for full text]