The BATSE Earth Occultation Catalog
Colleen Wilson
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
colleen.wilson@nasa.gov
Additional authors: the BATSE team
The hard X-ray sky was continuously monitored with the BATSE experiment on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory using the Earth Occultation method. Known sources were monitored twice every orbit and transients could be detected at about the ~50 mCrab level on a daily basis. I will summarize the results from our catalog of 179 monitored sources, highlighting observations of black holes. As part of this catalog, we have prepared webpages containing light curves and energy spectra for the 83 firmly detected sources and FITS files for all 179 sources. This web database can serve as a guide and comparison tool for future observations with EXIST.
