Journal article
Soft X-ray focusing Telescope aboard AstroSat: Early results
The Soft X-ray focusing Telescope (SXT) is a moderateresolution X-ray imaging spectrometer supplementing the ultraviolet and hard X-ray payloads for broadband studies of cosmic sources with AstroSat. Well suited for observing bright X-ray sources, SXT observations of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN), binary star systems with compact companions, active stars, etc. are producing long soft X-ray light curves and high-quality spectra.
The strong X-ray variability and multiple spectral components exhibited by SXT observations of nearby Seyfert 1 galaxies show excellent promise to probe accretion disks and central engines in AGN through multi-band variability and spectroscopy.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Current Science Association |
Year: | 2017 |
Pages: | 587-590 |
ISSN: | 00113891 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.18520/cs/v113/i04/587-590 |
ORCIDs: | Westergaard, N. J. |