Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aps..apru11001r&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, April Meeting, Jointly Sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American As
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The USA Experiment is an X-ray timing experiment with large collecting area and microsecond time resolution that carried out a broad scientific program covering X-ray binaries, pulsars, AGN, and other bright X-ray sources. USA is one of nine experiments aboard the Air Force Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS) which was launched February 23, 1999. The USA mission continued until November 16, 2000 when the gas supply was exhausted. USA is a collimated proportional counter X-ray telescope with about 1000 cm^2 of effective area per detector with two detectors sensitive to photons in the energy range 1--15 keV. We present an overview of the USA instrument, observation history, and highlight some of the results from the ongoing analysis of the data archive. For more information see http://xweb.nrl.navy.mil/usa/. Basic research in X-ray Astronomy at the Naval Research Laboratory is supported by ONR/NRL.
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