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B. A. Harmon, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, G. J. Fishman, W. S. Paciesas, S. N. Zhang, M. H. Finger, V. Connaughton, T. M. Koshut, W. Henze, M. L. McCollough, M. Sahi, B. Peterson (National Space Science & Technology Ctr, NASA MSFC), J. Grindlay (Harvard University), D. Barret (CESR - Toulouse), C. R. Shrader (NASA GSFC)
The 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 about 175 objects. The catalog will present the global properties of these sources and their probability of detection (>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 HEASARC for public use.
The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: alan.harmon@nsstc.nasa.gov