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The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) is the
primary archive for NASA's (and other space agencies') missions studying
electromagnetic radiation from
extremely energetic cosmic phenomena ranging from
black holes to the Big Bang. Since its
merger with the Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis
(LAMBDA) in 2008, the HEASARC
archive contains data
obtained by high-energy astronomy missions observing in the
extreme-ultraviolet (EUV), X-ray, and gamma-ray bands, as well as data from
space missions, balloons, and ground-based facilities that have studied the
relic cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation in the sub-mm, mm and
cm bands.
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Latest News
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- Einstein Post-doctoral Fellowship Program Is Now Accepting Applications (14 Sep 2016)
The 2017 Call for Proposals for new Einstein Fellows has been
released. These appointments are expected to begin on or about Sep 1, 2017.
This program provides an opportunity for highly qualified, recent post-doctoral
scientists to conduct independent research that is broadly related to the
science goals of the NASA
Physics of the Cosmos program.
The deadline for applications is Nov 3, 2016.
- PIMMS updated to Version 4.8c (14 Sep 2016)
Version 4.8c released on August 17, 2016; minor update of XMm-Newton EPIC effective area curves, suitable for use for AO-16 proposals....
- Young Magnetar Is Likely the Slowest Pulsar Ever Detected (13 Sep 2016)
Using new data from Chandra, NuSTAR and Swift as well as archival
data, Rea et al. have found evidence for what is likely one of the most extreme
pulsars, or rotating neutron stars, ever detected. The source 1E 161348-5055 at
the center of the RCW 103 SNR exhibits properties of a highly magnetized
neutron star, or magnetar, yet its deduced spin period of 6.67 hours is
thousands of times longer than any pulsar ever observed. A paper on
these results has just appeared in ApJ Letters and is available online
here.
- Fifth IBIS/ISGRI Soft Gamma-Ray Survey Catalog (08 Sep 2016)
The fifth version of the IBIS/ISGRI source catalog
containing the soft gamma-ray properties of 939
sources found in the first 1000 orbits (~3000 days) of INTEGRAL observations
(from Bird
et al. 2016, ApJS, 223, 15) is now available in Browse and
Xamin.
- Reminder: The Deadline for Swift Cycle 13 Proposals is September 23, 4:30pm EDT (01 Sep 2016)
For details on the Swift Cycle 13 program elements and how to
submit proposals, please see the Swift Cycle 13 information page at the above
link and the Swift
Cycle 13 FAQ page.
- Two New Fast X-ray Transients Discovered in the Galactic Plane (01 Sep 2016)
Sguera et al. (2016, MNRAS, in press) have identified two new X-ray
sources, IGR J03346+4414 and IGR J20344+3913, in the galactic plane with short
outbursts (15 and 30 minutes, respectively) and very fast rise times, a
category known as fast X-ray transients (FXTs). The newly detected FXTs were
found in the archival data of ESA's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics
Laboratory (INTEGRAL) spacecraft.
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