The USA X-ray Timing Experiment
Abstract
The USA Experiment is a new X-ray timing experiment with large collecting area and microsecond time resolution capable of conducting a broad program of studies of galactic X-ray binaries. USA is one of nine experiments aboard the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite which was launched February 23, 1999. USA is a collimated proportional counter X-ray telescope with about 1000 cm of effective area per detector with two detectors sensitive to photons in the energy range 1-15 keV. A unique feature of USA is that photon events are time tagged by reference to an onboard GPS receiver allowing precise absolute time and location determination. We will present an overview of the USA instrument, capabilities, and scientific observing plan as well as the current status of the instrument.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9911236,
title = {The USA X-ray Timing Experiment},
author = {P. S. Ray and K. S. Wood and G. Fritz and P. Hertz and M. Kowalski and W. N. Johnson and M. N. Lovellette and M. T. Wolff and D. Yentis and R. M. Bandyopadhyay and E. D. Bloom and B. Giebels and G. Godfrey and K. Reilly and P. Saz Parkinson and G. Shabad and P. Michelson and M. Roberts and D. A. Leahy and L. Cominsky and J. Scargle and J. Beall and D. Chakrabarty and Y. Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9911236},
year = {2007}
}
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Proceedings of X-ray Astronomy 1999, Bologna, 10 pages, 3 figures