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The radio as well as the high energy emission mechanism in pulsars is yet not understood properly. A multi-wavelength study is likely to help in better understanding of such processes. The first Indian space-based observatory, ASTROSAT, has…

Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Imager (CZTI) is one of the five payloads on-board recently launched Indian astronomy satellite AstroSat. CZTI is primarily designed for simultaneous hard X-ray imaging and spectroscopy of celestial X-ray sources. It…

The proposed Daksha mission comprises of a pair of highly sensitive space telescopes for detecting and characterising high-energy transients such as electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave events and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).…

The success of the SWIFT/BAT and INTEGRAL missions has definitely opened a new window for follow-up and deep study of the transient gamma-ray sky. This now appears as the access key to important progresses in the area of cosmological…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short lived ($\sim$ msec), energetic transients (having a peak flux density of $\sim$ Jy) with no known prompt emission in other energy bands. We present results of a search for prompt X-ray emissions from 41…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-21 Akash Anumarlapudi , Varun Bhalerao , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Arvind Balasubramanian

The radiation mechanism underlying the prompt emission remains unresolved and can be resolved using a systematic and uniform time-resolved spectro-polarimetric study. In this paper, we investigated the spectral, temporal, and polarimetric…

Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors are having a major impact on the field of hard X-ray astronomy. Without the need for cryogenic cooling they achieve good spatial and energy resolutions over the broad energy range from 10 keV to 600…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Krawczynski , I. Jung , J. Perkins , A. Burger , M. Groza

Cadmium Zinc Telluride and Cadmium Telluride are the detector materials of choice for the detection of X-rays in the X-ray energy band E >= 5keV with excellent spatial and spectral resolution and without cryogenic cooling. Owing to recent…

The multi-purpose INTEGRAL mission is continuously contributing to Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) science, thanks to the performances of its two main instruments, IBIS and SPI, operating in the hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray domain. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 V. Bianchin , S. Mereghetti , C. Guidorzi , L. Foschini , G. Vianello , G. Malaguti , G. Di Cocco , F. Gianotti , F. Schiavone

The Swift Gamma-Ray Explorer is designed to make prompt multiwavelength observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and GRB afterglows. The X-ray Telescope (XRT) enables Swift to determine GRB positions with a few arcseconds accuracy within 100…

Search for high energy transients in the millisecond domain has come to the focus in recent times due to the detection of Gravitational Wave events and the identification of Fast Radio Bursts as cosmological sources. I will highlight the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 A. R. Rao

The hard X-ray sky now being studied by INTEGRAL and Swift and soon by NuSTAR is rich with energetic phenomena and highly variable non-thermal phenomena on a broad range of timescales. The High Energy Telescope (HET) on the proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Hong , J. Grindlay , B. Allen , G. Skinner , S. Barthelmy , N. Gehrels , A. Garson , H. Krawczynski , W. Cook , F. Harrison , L. Natalucci , P. Ubertini , the EXIST/HET team

CdZnTe (CZT) is a wide bandgap II-VI semiconductor developed for the spectroscopic detection of X-rays and {\gamma}-rays at room temperature. The Swift Burst Alert Telescope is using an 5240 cm2 array of 2 mm thick CZT detectors for the…

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AstroSat is India's first space-based astronomical observatory, launched on September 28, 2015. One of the payloads aboard AstroSat is the Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI), operating at hard X-rays. CZTI employs a two-dimensional coded…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-17 Ajay Vibhute , Dipankar Bhattacharya , N. P. S. Mithun , V. Bhalerao , A. R. Rao , S. V. Vadawale

Context. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can be detected at cosmological distances and therefore can be used to study the contents and phases of the early Universe. The 4-150 keV wide-field trigger camera ECLAIRs to fly on board the Space-based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-22 Miguel Llamas Lanza , Olivier Godet , Benjamin Arcier , Manal Yassine , Jean-Luc Atteia , Laurent Bouchet

We are evaluating the performance of a Passive Gamma Emission Tomography (PGET) device equipped with 3D position-sensitive cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) gamma-ray detectors when used for inspecting spent nuclear fuel assemblies (SFAs).…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-09 Santeri Saariokari , Peter Dendooven , Mounia Laassiri , Erik Brücken

The Fermi Gamma Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is an all sky gamma-ray monitor well known in the gamma-ray burst community. Although GBM excels in detecting the hard, bright extragalactic GRBs, its sensitivity above 8 keV and all-sky view make it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 P. A. Jenke , M. Linares , V. Connaughton , E. Beklen , A. Camero-Arranz , M. H. Finger , C. A. Wilson-Hodge

Hard X-ray photons with energies in the range of hundreds of keV typically undergo Compton scattering when they are incident on a detector. In this process, an incident photon deposits a fraction of its energy at the point of incidence and…