Study of X-ray transients with Scanning Sky Monitor (SSM) onboard AstroSat

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作者：
Ramadevi, M. C. [1 ]
Ravishankar, B. T. [1 ]
Sarwade, Abhilash R. [1 ]
Vaishali, S. [1 ]
Iyer, Nirmal Kumar [1 ]
Nandi, Anuj [1 ]
Girish, V. [1 ]
Agarwal, Vivek Kumar [1 ]
Baby, Blessy Elizabeth [1 ]
Hasan, Mohammed [1 ]
Seetha, S. [2 ]
Bhattacharya, Dipankar [3 ]
机构：
[1] ISRO Satellite Ctr, Space Astron Grp, Bangalore 560017, Karnataka, India
[2] ISRO Headquarters, Bangalore 560231, Karnataka, India
[3] Inter Univ Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
来源：
JOURNAL OF ASTROPHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY | 2018年 / 39卷 / 01期
关键词：
X-ray sky monitor; scanning sky monitor; one-dimensional coded mask; 1D position sensitive proportional counter; AstroSat; X-ray transients; CALIBRATION; MISSION;
D O I：
10.1007/s12036-017-9506-1
中图分类号：
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号：
0704 ;
摘要：
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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