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The BATSE Earth Occultation Catalog of Low Energy Gamma Ray SourcesThe Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE), aboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), provided a record of the hard X-ray/low energy gamma ray sky between April 1991 and June 2000. During that time, a catalog of known sources was derived from existing catalogs such as HEAO A-4 (Levine et al. 1984), as well as new transient sources discovered with BATSE and other X-ray monitors operating in the CGRO era. The Earth Occultation Technique (Harmon et al. 2001, astro-ph/0109069) was used to monitor a combination of these sources, mostly galactic, totaling to about 175 objects. The catalog will present the global properties of these sources and their probability of detection (greater than 10 mCrab, 20-100 keV) with BATSE. Systematic errors due to unknown sources or background components are included. Cursory analyses to search for new transients (35-80 mCrab in the 20-100 keV band) and super-orbital periods in known binary sources are also presented. Whole mission light curves and associated data production/analysis tools are being delivered to the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) for public use.
Document ID
20020050368
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Harmon, B. A. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Wilson-Hodge, C. A. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Fishman, G. J. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Paciesas, W. S. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Zhang, S. N. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Finger, M. H. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Connaughton, V. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Koshut, T. M. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Henze, W. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
McCollough, M. L. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Six, N. Frank
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2002
Subject Category
Space Radiation
Meeting Information
Meeting: AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division Meeting
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Country: United States
Start Date: April 20, 2002
End Date: April 23, 2002
Sponsors: American Astronomical Society
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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