Science with the $AstroSat$ Soft X-ray Telescope: an overview
  The Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) aboard the $AstroSat$ 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 $\sim 0.3-8.0$ 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.
