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    The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) was a NASA satellite that observed the time variation of astronomical X-ray sources, named after physicist Bruno...
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    Explorer-class hard X-ray space observatory, in orbit since 2012 Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, an X-ray timing space observatory, active 1995–2012 X-ray telescope...
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    Swift. Past missions managed by GSFC include the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, SMM, COBE, IUE, and ROSAT. Founded...
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  • & J Gallo Winery Rossi Codex, 14th century collection of Italian music of the Trecento Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, a satellite Rossi (manufacturer), a...
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    Philosophical Society (1959) Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, a NASA satellite X-ray observatory launched in 1995. Bruno Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics...
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    Pulsar (redirect from Timing noise)
    likely date of pulsar glitches with observational data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. They used observations of the pulsar PSR J0537−6910, that is...
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  • from Earth. It was first observed on 19 October 1999 by NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite. It had previously been claimed that XTE J1739−285...
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    Monitoring surveys of the SMC performed with NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) see X-ray pulsars in outburst at more than 1036 erg/s and have...
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  • levels not much lower than the normal daytime level. The Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), an X-ray satellite, received its strongest signal from this burst...
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    50.01s +69° 40′ 46.0″. It was detected in January 2006 by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. In Ursa Major at RA 10h 34m 00.00 Dec +57° 40' 00.00" is a field...
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    Background Explorer, Manager for the Superfluid Helium On Orbit Transfer Shuttle Experiment, Manager for the Small Explorer Project, Manager for the Explorer Program...
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    intermediate-mass black hole candidate located using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. The candidate, M82 X-1, is orbited by a red giant star that is shedding...
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    Retrieved 20 April 2018. Reddy, Francis (4 May 2018). "Nasa's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer leaves scientific legacy". Phys.org. Retrieved 18 February 2019...
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    available observatories in orbit – among them: Chandra, the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), and the European observatories XMM-Newton, Integral and...
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    Gravitation, Freeman and Company, 1973. Williams, R. K. (1995). "Extracting X rays, Ύ rays, and relativistic e−e+ pairs from supermassive Kerr black holes using...
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  • magnetic pole drift on this pulsar with observational data from Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. Middleditch, John; Marshall, Francis E.; Wang, Q. Daniel; Gotthelf...
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    Particle Explorer (SAMPEX or Explorer 68) was a NASA solar and magnetospheric observatory and was the first spacecraft in the Small Explorer program....
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    Modified Uniformly Redundant Array Levin Spacelab-2 X-ray Telescope XRT (1985) Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) – ASM (1995–2012) BeppoSAX – Wide Field Camera...
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    explanation for a source of energy of such energetic phenomena as gamma-ray bursts. Results from computer models show that the Penrose process is capable...
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  • III star Supermassive star Quasi-star Supermassive dark star Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Superluminal motion Timeline of black hole physics White hole...
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  • 1971. The first discussion of a runaway effect, the black hole bomb, was explored by W. H. Press and S. A. Teukolsky in 1972. If such an effect were to spontaneously...
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    accretion process would accelerate them. In early 2007 data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and INTEGRAL spacecraft discovered a neutron star XTE J1739-285...
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    (X-Ray Timing Explorer)". NASA. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2008-02-27. "NASA – NSSDC – Spacecraft – Details (X-Ray Timing Explorer)"...
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    methane). Hansen was born in Denison, Iowa, to James Ivan Hansen and Gladys Ray Hansen. He was trained in physics and astronomy in the space science program...
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    K-line emission from an X-ray binary. Our large area PCA (Proportional Counter Array) on the current RXTE (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer) mission genuinely reflects...
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  • X-ray, a catalog of sources detected by ROSAT RXTE – (telescope) Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer, a space telescope designed to observe variability in X-ray...
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    SGR 1900+14 (category Astronomical X-ray sources)
    levels not much lower than the normal daytime level. The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), an X-ray satellite, received its strongest signal from this burst...
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    Observatory (CGRO) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) NASA Earth Observatory Goddard Earth Observing System Lunar...
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  • and co-investigator on the High Energy X-Ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE) flown on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. His doctoral students include Allan S...
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    cosmic X-ray experiment), and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE, 1995). The HEAO-1 detector had two fields of view to distinguish cosmic X-ray from noise...
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