X-ray all-sky monitoring and transient detection using a coded sphere telescope.

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May 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996a%26as..117..131b&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement, v.117, p.131-136

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Instrumentation: Detectors, Techniques: Image Processing, Telescopes, X-Rays: General, X-Rays: Bursts

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We present a design for a hard X-ray all-sky monitor which consists of a spherical structure whose surface is partially covered by circular units which serve the dual purpose of detector and mask elements, forming a coded aperture telescope with full 4π steradian coverage. We demonstrate that a simple practical implementation of this geometry results in an instrument which is capable of measuring the fluxes in the 10-20keV bandpass of the hundred brightest sources in the sky at least every two days. We also show how this instrument can be used to image burst and transient sources; obtain their positions with arcminute accuracy; and follow their light curves throughout their lifetimes.

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