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Aerogel keystones: extraction of complete hypervelocity impact events from aerogel collectors
Andrew J. Westphal, Christopher J. Snead, Anna L. Butterworth +7
In January 2006, the Stardust mission will return the first samples from a solid solar-system body since Apollo, and the first samples of contemporary interstellar dust ever collec…
Spectral analysis of 50 GRBs detected by HETE-2
C. Barraud, the HETE-2 team
FREGATE, the gamma-ray detector of HETE-2 is entirely dedicated to the study of GRBs. Its main characteristic is its broad energy range, from 7 keV to 400 keV. This energy range ca…
SPI/INTEGRAL in-flight performance
J. -P. Roques, S. Schanne, A. von Kienlin +23
The SPI instrument has been launched on-board the INTEGRAL observatory on October 17, 2002. SPI is a spectrometer devoted to the sky observation in the 20 keV-8 MeV energy range us…
Discovery of a New Transient Magnetar Candidate: XTE J1810-197
A. I. Ibrahim, C. Markwardt, J. Swank +10
We report the discovery of a new X-ray pulsar, XTE J1810-197. The source was serendipitously discovered on 2003 July 15 by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) while observing th…
SPI/INTEGRAL observation of the Cygnus region
L. Bouchet, E. Jourdain, J. -P. Roques +22
We present the analysis of the first observations of the Cygnus region by the SPI spectrometer onboard the Integral Gamma Ray Observatory, encompassing 600 ks of data. Thr…
Highlights of the HETE-2 Mission
D. Q. Lamb, G. R. Ricker, J. -L. Atteia +37
The HETE-2 mission has been highly productive. It has observed more than 250 GRBs so far. It is currently localizing 25 - 30 GRBs per year, and has localized 43 GRBs to date. Twent…
Testing Lorentz Invariance with GRB021206
Steven E. Boggs, Cornelia B. Wunderer, Kevin Hurley +1
Since the discovery of the cosmological origin of GRBs there has been growing interest in using these transient events to probe the quantum gravity energy scale in the range 10^16-…
A close look at the state transitions of Galactic black hole transients during outburst decay
E. Kalemci, J. A. Tomsick, R. E. Rothschild +2
We characterize the evolution of spectral and temporal properties of several Galactic black hole transients during outburst decay using the data from well sampled PCA/\rxte observa…
On the Photometric Accuracy of RHESSI Imaging and Spectrosocopy
Markus J. Aschwanden, Thomas R. Metcalf, Sam Krucker +4
We compare the photometric accuracy of spectra and images in flares observed with the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)}spacecraft. We test the accuracy of the…
MAXIMA: A Balloon-Borne Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Experiment
B. Rabii, C. D. Winant, M. E. Abroe +20
We describe the Millimeter wave Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array (MAXIMA), a balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Back…
Scientific Highlights of the HETE-2 Mission
D. Q. Lamb, G. R. Ricker, J-L. Atteia +37
The HETE-2 mission has been highly productive. It has observed more than 250 GRBs so far. It is currently localizing 25 - 30 GRBs per year, and has localized 43 GRBs to date. Twent…
INTEGRAL Spectrometer SPI's GRB detection capabilities. GRBs detected inside SPI's FoV and with the anticoincidence system ACS
A. von Kienlin, V. Beckmann, A. Rau +15
The spectrometer SPI, one of the two main instruments of the INTEGRAL spacecraft, offers significant gamma-ray burst detection capabilities. In its 35 deg (full width) field of vie…
MAXIPOL: A Balloon-borne Experiment for Measuring the Polarization Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
B. R. Johnson, M. E. Abroe, P. Ade +17
We discuss MAXIPOL, a bolometric balloon-borne experiment designed to measure the E-mode polarization anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) on angular scale…
The effects of low temporal frequency modes on minimum variance maps from PLANCK
R. Stompor, M. White
We estimate the effects of low temporal frequency modes in the time stream on sky maps such as expected from the PLANCK experiment -- a satellite mission designed to image the sky…
Correlations Between the WMAP and MAXIMA Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Maps
M. E. Abroe, J. Borrill, P. G. Ferreira +10
We cross-correlate the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy maps from the WMAP, MAXIMA-I, and MAXIMA-II experiments. We use the cross-spectrum, which is the spherical…
Detection of Low-Hard State Spectral and Timing Signatures from the Black Hole X-Ray Transient XTE J1650-500 at Low X-Ray Luminosities
John A. Tomsick, Emrah Kalemci, Philip Kaaret
Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, we have studied the black hole candidate (BHC) X-ray transient XTE J1650-500 near the end of its 2001-2002…
High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Gamma-Ray Lines from the X-Class Solar Flare of 23 July, 2002
David M. Smith, Gerald H. Share, Ronald J. Murphy +3
The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopy Imager (RHESSI) has obtained the first high-resolution measurements of nuclear de-excitation lines produced by energetic ions accel…
The 2001 April Burst Activation of SGR 1900+14: Pulse Properties and Torque
P. M. Woods, C. Kouveliotou, E. Gogus +10
We report on observations of SGR 1900+14 made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and BeppoSAX during the April 2001 burst activation of the source. Using these data, we me…
The 2001 April Burst Activation of SGR 1900+14: X-ray afterglow emission
M. Feroci, S. Mereghetti, P. Woods +8
After nearly two years of quiescence, the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1900+14 again became burst-active on April 18 2001, when it emitted a large flare, preceded by few weak and so…
The Effects of Massive Substructures on Image Multiplicities in Gravitati onal Lenses
J. D. Cohn, C. S. Kochanek
Surveys for gravitational lens systems have typically found a significantly larger fraction of lenses with four (or more) images than are predicted by standard ellipsoidal lens mod…
Polarization of the prompt gamma-ray emission from the gamma-ray burst of 6 December 2002
W. Coburn, S. E. Boggs
Observations of the afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have revealed that they lie at cosmological distances, and so correspond to the release of an enormous amount of energy. T…
The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager observation of the 1809 keV line from Galactic 26Al
David M. Smith
Observations of the central radian of the Galaxy by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopy Imager (RHESSI) have yielded a high-resolution measurement of the 1809 keV line…
X-Ray Flares and Oscillations from the Black Hole Candidate X-Ray Transient XTE J1650-500 at Low Luminosity
John A. Tomsick, Emrah Kalemci, Stephane Corbel +1
We report on X-ray observations made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer of the black hole candidate (BHC) transient XTE J1650-500 at the end of its first, and currently only, out…
Weak Lensing from Space I: Instrumentation and Survey Strategy
Jason Rhodes, Alexandre Refregier, Richard Massey +1
A wide field space-based imaging telescope is necessary to fully exploit the technique of observing dark matter via weak gravitational lensing. This first paper in a three part ser…