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20172026
most citedCadmium Zinc Telluride Imager onboard AstroSat : a multi-faceted hard X-ray instrument

38 citations · 105 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Can We Find the Emission Mechanism Behind the Extremely Bright GRB 230812B?

Utkarsh Pathak, Sameer K. Patil, Hitesh Tanenia +23

GRB 230812B is a bright long-duration GRB with a luminous, long-lived afterglow and an AstroSat/CZTI polarization measurement during the prompt phase, enabling a joint study of its…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Spectro-polarimetry of GRB 180427A: evidence for distinct emission sites with varying polarisation

Rushikesh Sonawane, Shabnam Iyyani, Soumya Gupta +5

The dynamics of the origin of gamma-ray emissions in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains an enigma. Through a joint analysis of GRB 180427A, observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Teles…

astro-ph.HE2024

Investigating Polarization characteristics of GRB200503A and GRB201009A

Divita Saraogi, Suman Bala, Jitendra Joshi +18

We present results of a comprehensive analysis of the polarization characteristics of GRB 200503A and GRB 201009A observed with the Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) on board As…

astro-ph.HE2024

Accretion Geometry of GX 339-4 in the Hard State: AstroSat View

Swadesh Chand, Gulab C. Dewangan, Andrzej A. Zdziarski +3

We perform broadband ( keV) spectral analysis of five hard state observations of the low-mass back hole X-ray binary GX~339--4 taken by AstroSat during the rising phase of…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Detection of simultaneous QPO triplets in 4U 1728-34 and constraining the neutron star mass and moment of inertia

Kewal Anand, Ranjeev Misra, J. S. Yadav +3

We report simultaneous detection of twin kHz and Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the time-resolved analysis of the AstroSat/LAXPC observation of the neutron star…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 13 cited

A multi-wavelength study of the hard and soft states of MAXI J1820+070 during its 2018 outburst

Srimanta Banerjee, Gulab C. Dewangan, Christian Knigge +8

We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength spectral analysis of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 during its 2018 outburst, utilizing AstroSat far UV, soft and hard X-ray…

astro-ph.HE2024

Bright in the Black: Searching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational-Wave Candidates in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observation Runs with AstroSat-CZTI

Gaurav Waratkar, Varun Bhalerao, Dipankar Bhattacharya

GW150914 marked the start of the gravitational wave (GW) era with the direct detection of binary black hole (BBH) merger by the LIGO-Virgo GW detectors. The event was temporally co…

astro-ph.HE2024

Localisation of Gamma Ray Bursts using AstroSat Mass Model

Divita Saraogi, J Venkata Aditya, Varun Bhalerao +12

The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) aboard AstroSat has good sensitivity to Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs), with close to 600 detections including about 50 discoveries undetected by…

astro-ph.HE2023

Fast-varying time lags in the Quasi-periodic Oscillation in GRS 1915+105

Tomaso M. Belloni, Mariano Mendez, Federico Garcia +1

The properties of sub-second time variability of the X-ray emission of the black-hole binary GRS 1915+105 are very complex and strictly connected to its patterns of variability obs…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

High hard X-ray polarization in Cygnus X-1 confined to the intermediate hard state: evidence for a variable jet component

Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Abhay Kumar, A. R. Rao +7

Cygnus X-1, the well-known accreting black hole system, exhibits several observational features hinting at an intricate interplay between the accretion disk, its atmosphere known a…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

Basics of Fourier Analysis for High-Energy Astronomy

T. M. Belloni, D. Bhattacharya

The analysis of time variability, whether fast variations on time scales well below the second or slow changes over years, is becoming more and more important in high-energy astron…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 12 cited

The Search for Fast Transients with CZTI

Y. Sharma, A. Marathe, V. Bhalerao +9

The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager on AstroSat has proven to be a very effective all-sky monitor in the hard X-ray regime, detecting over three hundred GRBs and putting highly compe…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 38 cited

Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager onboard AstroSat : a multi-faceted hard X-ray instrument

A. R. Rao, D. Bhattacharya, V. B. Bhalerao +2

The AstroSat satellite is designed to make multi-waveband observations of astronomical sources and the Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) instrument of AstroSat covers the hard X…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 19 cited

The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS)

N. Gupta, R. Srianand, W. Baan +41

Deep galaxy surveys have revealed that the global star formation rate (SFR) density in the Universe peaks at 1 < z < 2 and sharply declines towards z = 0. But a clear picture of th…