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Updates on RXTE Symposium and Banquet February 15, 2012 16 Years of Discovery with RXTE: A Celebration of the Mission January 23, 2012 RXTE Completes Mission Operations January 11, 2012 RXTE Helps Pinpoint Launch of 'Bullets' in a Black Hole's Jet January 11, 2012 The RXTE Mission is Approaching the End of Science Operations January 3, 2012
Agenda for RXTE Symposium and Deadline ReminderMarch 17, 2012 Here are a few updates and reminders regarding the "16 Years of Discovery with RXTE" events:
The deadline to purchase tickets to the reunion banquet is Tues., March 27, 2012. If you plan to attend the Symposium please make sure you have registered (it's free!), so that we can have an accurate headcount to prepare coffee, etc., for the event.
Updates on RXTE Symposium and BanquetFebruary 15, 2012 Information on obtaining visitor badges, submitting poster abstracts, and buying tickets to the banquet dinner has been added to the 16 Years of Discovery with RXTE: A Celebration of the Mission Web page. Please note the following:
16 Years of Discovery with RXTE: A Celebration of the MissionJanuary 23, 2012 Join us for a two day celebration of the RXTE mission, featuring a symposium, reception, dinner, and much more, March 29 & 30 at Goddard Space Flight Center. All are invited! For details, see our Web page:
RXTE Completes Mission OperationsJanuary 11, 2012 After 16 years in space, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has made its last observation. Science operations concluded on January 3 and the satellite was decommissioned on January 5.The RXTE Team would like the thank the user community for their dedication to RXTE over the years: you helped make the promise of the RXTE mission into a reality through the amazing array of scientific discoveries, papers, and results you published. We hope that research can continue for many years to come with the wealth of data that is in the RXTE archive. To aid in that research, the RXTE team will be releasing some new science products in the coming weeks. Stay tuned! Press Release: NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Completes Mission Operations
RXTE Helps Pinpoint Launch of 'Bullets' in a Black Hole's JetJanuary 11, 2012 Researchers use RXTE and the VLBA data to pinpoint when the black hole system H1743-322 ejected powerful gas 'bullets' during its mid-2009 outburst.Press Release: NASA'S RXTE Helps Pinpoint Launch of 'Bullets' in a Black Hole's Jet The RXTE Mission is Approaching the End of Science OperationsJanuary 3, 2012 After nearly 16 years of discovery, the RXTE mission is approaching the end of science operations. The spacecraft will be decommissioned during the week beginning Monday, January 2, 2012, and science observations will conclude at the end of the day on January 3, 2012 (UT). The last observations will be of Sco X-1. We remind people that a special session entitled, "The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer: Taking the Pulse of the Universe," will take place during the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Austin, TX. The session is scheduled for Tuesday, 10 January 2012 from 2:00PM - 3:30PM. We invite all RXTE users and friends to attend. Further information about the 219th AAS meeting can be found at the AAS website.
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HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.
- RXTE Project Scientist: Tod Strohmayer
- NASA Official: Dr. Andy Ptak
- Web Curator: J.D. Myers
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