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Observations of bright stars with AstroSat soft X-ray telescope

Singh, K. P.; Dewangan, G. C.; Bhattacharyya, S. +5 more

We present observations of four bright stars observed with the AstroSat Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT). Visible light from bright stars like these can leak through the very thin filter in front of the CCD in the focal plane CCD camera of the SXT and thus making the extraction of X-ray events difficult. Here, we show how to extract the X-ray events wit…