The nature of the soft gamma-ray (20-200 keV) Galactic emission has been a
matter of debate for a long time. Previous experiments have tried to separate
the point source contribution from the real interstellar emission, but with a
rather poor spatial resolution, they concluded that the interstellar emission
could be a large fraction of the total Galactic emission. INTEGRAL, having both
high resolution and high sensitivity, is well suited to reassess more precisely
this problem. Using the INTEGRAL core program Galactic Center Deep Exposure
(GCDE), we estimate the contribution of detected point sources to the total
Galactic flux.Comment: Proceedings of the 5th INTEGRAL Workshop, Munich 16-20 February 2004.
ESA SP-55
