1. Study of X-ray transients with Scanning Sky Monitor (SSM) onboard AstroSat
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S. Vaishali, M. C. Ramadevi, S. Seetha, Anuj Nandi, Vivek Kumar Agarwal, V. Girish, Blessy Elizabeth Baby, Abhilash R. Sarwade, Dipankar Bhattacharya, B. T. Ravishankar, Mohammed Adnan Hasan, and Nirmal Iyer
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Physics ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,media_common.quotation_subject ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Space and Planetary Science ,Sky ,0103 physical sciences ,Orbit (dynamics) ,Transient (oscillation) ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Remote sensing ,media_common - Abstract
Scanning Sky Monitor (SSM) onboard AstroSat is an X-ray sky monitor in the energy range 2.5–10 keV. SSM scans the sky for X-ray transient sources in this energy range of interest. If an X-ray transient source is detected in outburst by SSM, the information will be provided to the astronomical community for follow-up observations to do a detailed study of the source in various other bands. SSM instrument, since its power-ON in orbit, has observed a number of X-ray sources. This paper discusses observations of few X-ray transients by SSM. The flux reported by SSM for few sources during its Performance Verification phase (PV phase) is studied and the results are discussed.
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- 2018
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