9.1 Years of All-Sky Hard X-ray Monitoring with BATSE

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Nov 2002

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X-ray Binaries in the Chandra and XMM-Newton Era (with an emphasis on Targets of Opportunity), Abstracts of the conference held

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Actively Accreting And Transient Binaries

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The hard X-ray sky was continuously monitored with the BATSE experiment on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory using the Earth Occultation method. Known sources were monitored twice every orbit and transients could be detected at about the ~50 mCrab level on a daily basis. Long-term, post-processing of the complete BATSE dataset will produce all-sky, hard X-ray maps at a sensitivity level of ~5 mCrab in un-crowded regions. For long period pulsars (>1 second), Fourier transforms and epoch-folded searches were used to measure pulse frequency and pulsed flux. Using these methods, 3 black hole candidates and 6 X-ray pulsars were discovered with BATSE during its 9 years in orbit. I will present highlights from BATSE observations of X-ray binaries from 9 years of monitoring the hard X-ray sky.

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