Highlights from RXTE after 2.5 Years: Neutron-star Spins at KiloHertz Frequencies, Microquasars and More

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dc.creatorBradt, Hale V.
dc.date1999-01-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:29:59Z
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dc.descriptionThe Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite was launched on 30 December 1995. It has made substantial contributions pertaining to compact objects and their environs. Broad-band spectral and short-time-scale temporal studies are exploring the effects of General Relativity in the regime of strong gravity. We present a brief outline of the principal contributions and then give a general overview of two new areas of x-ray astronomy that have proven by RXTE to be very fruitful: accreting neutron stars with millisecond spin periods and microquasars. The former pertains to the spin evolution of low-mass x-ray binaries and the equations of state of neutron stars while the latter is lends insight to disk-jet interactions in galactic black-hole binary systems.
dc.description22 pages, 12 figures, Latex. email: bradt@mit.edu. To appear in Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Proceedings of the Vulcano Workshop, Vulcano, Italy, May 1998, eds. F. Giovannelli & G. Mannoccihi, Societa' Italiana di Fisica, Editrice Compositori, Bologna, Italy
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901174
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901174
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/13685
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleHighlights from RXTE after 2.5 Years: Neutron-star Spins at KiloHertz Frequencies, Microquasars and More
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