The capabilities of the X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) are described with particular attention paid to current scientific problems it will address, from galactic neutron star systems to active galactic nuclei. It features a low-background continuous 2-200 keV response with large apertures (a 0.63 sq m proportional counter array and a 0.16 sq m dual rocking NaI/CsI scintillation array). Rapid response (in hours) to temporal phenomena, e.g., transients, is obtained by virtue of a scanning all-sky monitor and rapid maneuverability. The XTE will carry out detailed energy-resolved studies of phenomena close to neutron stars (e.g., quasi-periodic oscillations) because of its submillisecond timing (to 10 microsec), its high telemetry rates (to 256 kbs), and the high throughput of its data system (to greater than about (200,000 c/sec).
The X-ray Timing Explorer
Advances in Space Research ; 10 , 2, 19
1990-01-01
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Elsevier | 1983
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|The X-ray Timing Explorer Mission
AIAA | 1989
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