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- Title
Scanning sky monitor (SSM) onboard AstroSat.
- Authors
Ramadevi, M.; Seetha, S.; Bhattacharya, Dipankar; Ravishankar, B.; Sitaramamurthy, N.; Meena, G.; Sharma, M.; Kulkarni, Ravi; Babu, V.; Kumar; Singh, Brajpal; Jain, Anand; Yadav, Reena; Vaishali, S.; Ashoka, B.; Agarwal, Anil; Balaji, K.; Nagesh, G.; Kumar, Manoj; Gaan, Dhruti
- Abstract
Scanning Sky Monitor (SSM) onboard AstroSat is an Xray sky monitor in the soft X-ray band designed with a large field of view to detect and locate transient X-ray sources and alert the astronomical community about interesting phenomena in the X-ray sky. SSM comprises position sensitive proportional counters with 1D coded mask for imaging. There are three detector units mounted on a platform capable of rotation which helps covering about 50% of the sky in one full rotation. This paper discusses the elaborate details of the instrument and few immediate results from the instrument after launch.
- Subjects
PROPORTIONAL counters; ASTROSAT (Satellite); GALACTIC X-ray sources; X-ray detection; ASTRONOMICAL instruments
- Publication
Experimental Astronomy, 2017, Vol 44, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0922-6435
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10686-017-9536-3