This article presents a brief description of India's AstroSat mission which is a powerful space based observatory for compact star research. An account is given of observational constraints and spectral and timing capabilities as realised post-launch. Some preliminary results of observations of the Crab pulsar and an X-ray binary system GX~301-2 are presented to illustrate some of the capabilities of the mission.
@article{arxiv.1709.07152,
title = {Observing Compact Stars with AstroSat},
author = {Dipankar Bhattacharya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.07152},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Has appeared in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy special issue on 'Physics of Neutron Stars and Related Objects', celebrating the 75th birth-year of G. Srinivasan."