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| Name: Varun Bhalerao Affiliation: IUCAA Conference ID: ASI2016_797 Title : First science from CZTI Authors and Co-Authors : A. R. Rao (TIFR) Dipankar Bhattacharya (IUCAA) Santosh Vadawale (PRL) Abstract Type : Poster Abstract Category : Instrumentation and Techniques Abstract : The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager is a weide-field coded aperture mask instrument on Astrosat, sensitive to photons from 20 keV to over 200 keV. The science objectives of the CZTI include the measurement of curvature and reflection components in the spectra of Active Galactic Nuclei and X-ray binary systems, the study of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations at hard X- ray bands in accreting neutron star and black hole systems, cyclotron line spectroscopy of high mass X-ray binaries, the characterization of hard X-ray spectra of magnetars as well as the detection of gamma ray bursts and the study of their early light curves. CZTI is also capable of measuring hard X-ray polarisation for bright sources. I will discuss the first CZTI science results in several of these fields. |