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May 1999
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American Astronomical Society, 194th AAS Meeting, #103.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.1001
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The USA Experiment is a new X-ray timing experiment with large collecting area and microsecond time resolution, capable of conducting a broad program of studies of galactic X-ray binaries. USA is one of nine experiments aboard the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS) which was launched aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket on February 23, 1999. USA is expected to be powered on and initialized in early May, 1999. USA is a collimated proportional counter X-ray telescope with about 2000 cm(2) of effective area and is sensitive to photons in the energy range 1-15 keV. A unique feature of USA is that all photon events are time tagged by reference to an onboard GPS receiver allowing precise absolute time and location determination. USA will investigate phemomena such as kHz QPOs recently discovered in some X-ray binaries, coherent millisecond periodicities in X-ray bursts, rapid variability in black hole systems, precise absolute timing of both rotation and accretion-powered X-ray pulsars and other topics. We will present an overview of the USA capabilities and scientific observing plan as well as the current status of the instrument and some selected initial results.
Bandyopadhyay Ranjini
Beall James
Bloom Elliott D.
Chakrabarty Deepto
Chaput C.
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