LAXPC instrument onboard AstroSat: Five exciting years of new scientific results specially on X-ray binaries

Yadav, J. S. and Agrawal, P. C. and Misra, Ranjeev and Roy, Jayashree and Pahari, Mayukh and et al, . (2021) LAXPC instrument onboard AstroSat: Five exciting years of new scientific results specially on X-ray binaries. Springer.

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Abstract

With its large effective area at hard X-rays, high time resolution and having co-aligned other instruments, AstroSat/LAXPC was designed to usher in a new era in rapid variability studies and wide spectral band measurements of the X-ray binaries. Over the last five years, the instrument has successfully achieved to a significant extent these Science goals. In the coming years, it is poised to make more important discoveries. This paper highlights the primary achievements of AstroSat/LAXPC in unraveling the behavior of black hole and neutron star systems and discusses the exciting possibility of the instrument’s contribution to future science. © 2021, Indian Academy of Sciences.

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IITH Creators:

IITH Creators	ORCiD
Pahari, Mayukh	UNSPECIFIED

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Other

Additional Information:

We acknowledge the strong support from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in various aspects of instrument development, space qualification, software development, mission operation and data dissemination. We specially acknowledge ISAC support for electronics development and during space qualification tests. We thank IISU team for providing us bellow pump along with space qualified pump driver. We acknowledge support of the scientific and technical staff of the LAXPC instrument team for their excellent team work as well as staff of the TIFR Workshop who helped us at various level of LAXPC instrument development.

Uncontrolled Keywords:

accretion; Black hole; neutron star; radio jet; space instrument; X-ray

Subjects:

Physics

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Department of Physics

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. LibTrainee 2021

Date Deposited:

03 Sep 2022 05:56

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03 Sep 2022 05:56