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      X-ray sky monitor—scanning skymonitor—one-dimensional coded mask—1D position sensitive proportional counter—AstroSat—X-ray transients. 1. Introduction AstroSat (Agrawal 2006, 2017; Singh et al. 2014) is India’s first dedicated multiwavelength mission to observe the Universe in the broad energy band from optical through UV and soft X-rays to hard X-rays, with five different payloads

    • 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.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      M. C. RAMADEVI1 B. T. RAVISHANKAR1 ABHILASH R. SARWADE1 S. VAISHALI1 NIRMAL KUMAR IYER1 ANUJ NANDI1 V. GIRISH1 VIVEK KUMAR AGARWAL1 BLESSY ELIZABETH BABY1 MOHAMMED HASAN1 S. SEETHA2 DIPANKAR BHATTACHARYA3

      1. Space Astronomy Group, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore 560 017, India.
      2. ISRO Headquarters, Bangalore 560 231, India.
      3. Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 411 007, India.

    • Dates

       
      Published
      15 February 2018
      Manuscript received
      1 September 2017
      Accepted
      19 December 2017
      Final version published online
      9 February 2018

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