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arxiv: astro-ph/0408406 · v1 · submitted 2004-08-23 · 🌌 astro-ph

Gamma-Ray All Sky Imaging with BATSE

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The BATSE mission aboard CGRO observed the whole sky for 9 years in the 20 keV - 2 MeV energy band. Flat-fielding of the temporal variations in the background present in the data set has been accomplished through a GEANT3 Monte-Carlo simulation - the BATSE Mass Model (BAMM). The Earth Occultation technique (EOT) is used together with a maximum-likelihood imaging approach to construct all-sky maps with ~mCrab sensitivity. Additionally, a non-linear CLEAN algorithm is applied to the all-sky maps to remove large artefacts that are systematic of the EOT. The latest survey results produced through the application of this technique to a subset of the BATSE data set are presented.

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