Sky coverage of the Ariel V RMC experiment and its sensitivity to X-ray bursts.
Abstract
Data accumulated by the Ariel V rotation modulation collimator (RMC) experiment in detection of X-ray bursts (as of May 1976) are analyzed in a search for regions of the sky containing cosmic X-ray burst sources. In the RMC time mode, X-rays from 3 to 7 keV are accumulated in 32-sec time bins with no spatial resolution in the 17 deg FWHM field of view pointed along the Ariel V spin axis. Accumulation of counts from cosmic X-rays is interrupted by occultation of the field of view by the earth, and by occultation of the sun by the earth. Charts depicting sky coverage are presented, with likely regions of X-ray burst activity indicated. The validity and relevance of data accumulated for several regions of particular interest are discussed.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- December 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/177.1.107P
- Bibcode:
- 1976MNRAS.177P.107C
- Keywords:
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- Ariel 5 Satellite;
- Collimators;
- Cosmic X Rays;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- X Ray Astronomy;
- Bursts;
- Galactic Nuclei;
- Galactic Radiation;
- Shot Noise;
- Time Dependence;
- X Ray Density Measurement;
- X Ray Sources;
- Space Radiation