Science with the $AstroSat$ Soft X-ray Telescope: an overview
Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India), Kulinder Pal Singh (IISER-Mohali,, India), Gordon Stewart (Univ. of Leicester, UK), Sunil Chandra (North-West, Univ., SA), Gulab C. Dewangan (IUCAA, India), Nilima S. Kamble (TIFR, India),, Sandeep Vishwakarma (TIFR, India)

TL;DR
The paper reviews the capabilities and performance of India's AstroSat Soft X-ray Telescope, highlighting its spectral and timing results in the 0.3-8 keV band, and its advantages over larger CCD-based X-ray telescopes.
Contribution
It provides an overview of the AstroSat SXT's design, capabilities, and key scientific results, emphasizing its unique strengths in X-ray spectroscopy and timing.
Findings
Demonstrated high-quality spectral data for bright X-ray sources
Showcased timing analysis capabilities of the SXT
Highlighted the telescope's performance advantages over larger instruments
Abstract
The Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) aboard the satellite is the first Indian X-ray telescope in space. It is a modest size X-ray telescope with a charge coupled device (CCD) camera in the focal plane, which provides X-ray images in the keV band. A forte of SXT is in providing undistorted spectra of relatively bright X-ray sources, in which it excels some current large CCD-based X-ray telescopes. Here, we highlight some of the published spectral and timing results obtained using the SXT data to demonstrate the capabilities and overall performance of this telescope.
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