Abstract Details
| Name: Dr. M.C. RAMADEVI Affiliation: ISRO SATELLITE CENTRE Conference ID: ASI2016_776 Title : SSM on ASTROSAT: First Results Authors and Co-Authors : SSM Team@ ISAC and IUCAA Abstract Type : Reject Abstract Category : Instrumentation and Techniques Abstract : SSM onboard ASTROSAT is an X-ray sky monitor with a large FOV to scan the sky to detect and locate transient X-ray sources in the soft X-ray energy band of 2 to 10 keV. SSM comprises of 3 units of position sensitive proportional counters with 1D coced mask on each unit to do imaging. All three units are mounted on a platform capable of rotation so that the instrument sacns the sky in step and state mode. It stares at every FOV for 10 min and steps by 10 deg and thus capable of covering 50% of the sky in one full rotation of the platform. This talk will address the details of the instrument and the first results from the instrument onboard. |