Alien Registration- Briggs, Ronald C. (Limestone, Aroostook County)

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AXTAR: Mission Design Concept

The Advanced X-ray Timing Array (AXTAR) is a mission concept for X-ray timing of compact objects that combines very large collecting area, broadband spectral coverage, high time resolution, highly flexible scheduling, and an ability to respond promptly to time-critical targets of opportunity. It is optimized for submillisecond timing of bright Galactic X-ray sources in order to study phenomena at the natural time scales of neutron star surfaces and black hole event horizons, thus probing the physics of ultradense matter, strongly curved spacetimes, and intense magnetic fields. AXTAR's main instrument, the Large Area Timing Array (LATA) is a collimated instrument with 2-50 keV coverage and over 3 square meters effective area. The LATA is made up of an array of supermodules that house 2-mm thick silicon pixel detectors. AXTAR will provide a significant improvement in effective area (a factor of 7 at 4 keV and a factor of 36 at 30 keV) over the RXTE PCA. AXTAR will also carry a sensitive Sky Monitor (SM) that acts as a trigger for pointed observations of X-ray transients in addition to providing high duty cycle monitoring of the X-ray sky. We review the science goals and technical concept for AXTAR and present results from a preliminary mission design study.Comment: 19 pages, 10 figures, to be published in Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 773

Applied Plasma Research

Contains research objectives and reports on three research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant GK-18185)Lincoln Laboratory Purchase Order No. CC-554U. S. Navy (Office of Naval Research) under Contract N00014-67-A-0204-0019Air Force Office of Scientific Researc

Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion

Contains reports on two research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant GK-2581

Applied Plasma Research

Contains research objectives, summary of research and reports on three research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant GK-28282X)M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory Purchase Order No. CC-54

Applied Plasma Research

Contains research objectives and reports on three research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant GK-2581)Joint Services Electronics Program under Contract DA 28-043-AMC-02536(E

Applied Plasma Research

Contains research objectives and reports on three research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant GK-10472)Lincoln Laboratory, M. I. T. (P. O. No. A-3393

Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion

Contains research objectives and reports on three research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant GK-1165)National Science Foundation (Grant GK-57

Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion

Contains research objectives and reports on three research projects.National Science Foundation (Grant GK-1165