The WATCH solar X-ray burst catalogue^*

¹ DASOP URA2080, Observatoire de Paris, Section d'Astrophysique, 5 Place J. Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France
² LPCE, UPR 4010 du CNRS, conventionnée avec l'Université d'Orléans, 3A avenue de la Recherche Scientifique, 45071 Orléans la Source Cedex 2, France
³ Danish Space Research Institute, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
⁴ Space Research Institute, Profsoyuznaja 84/32, 117296 Moscow, Russia

Send offprint request to: N. Crosby

Received: 22 July 1997
Accepted: 18 November 1997

Abstract

The WATCH experiment aboard the GRANAT satellite provides observations of the Sun in the deka-keV range covering the years 1990 through mid-1992. An introduction to the experiment is given followed by an explanation of how the WATCH solar burst catalogue was created. The different parameters listed for each burst is given and are furthermore explained.