Using collimated CZTI as all sky X-ray detector based on Earth Occultation Technique

Abstract

All-sky monitors can measure the fluxes of astrophysical sources by measuring the changes in observed counts as the source is occulted by the Earth. Such measurements have typically been carried out by all-sky monitors like $\text{CGRO}$-BATSE and $\text{Fermi}$-GBM. We demonstrate for the first time the application of this technique to measure fluxes of sources using a collimated instrument: the Cadmium Zinc Telluride detector on $\text{AstroSat}$. Reliable flux measurements are obtained for the Crab nebula and pulsar, and for Cyg X-1 by carefully selecting the best occultation data sets. We demonstrate that CZTI can obtain such measurements for hard sources with intensities $\gtrsim 1$Crab.

arXiv commentAccepted in the "AstroSat - 5 years" special issue of the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

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