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Find out what RXTE has discovered about the high energy universe! This page contains science highlights of the RXTE mission. Check back frequently for the latest info from RXTE.
| Powerful Explosions Suggest Neutron Star Missing Link Researcher Fotis Gavriil used RXTE to make an incredible discovery: "We are watching one type of neutron star literally change into another right before our very eyes. This is a long-sought missing link between different types of pulsars." [NASA Feature Article] |  |
| RXTE Sees Superburst Effect Accretion Disk in Real Time RXTE observations of a superburst halfway across the galaxy provide scientists with their first-ever look at the moment-to-moment changes the burst inflicted on the nearby accretion disk. [General Audience] [Sci/Tech Audience] | 
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| The Missing Link is Found The first confirmed millisecond pulsar to be found in an accreting binary star system. [General Audience] [Sci/Tech Audience] | 
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| Starquake May Reveal Inside of a Neutron Star A detailed look at data from SGR 1806-20, an unprecedented neutron star explosion, may reveal what's inside a neutron star, a major mystery in astronomy, scientists say. [Sci/Tech Audiences] | 
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| Fastest Periodic Signals in Astronomy. RXTE uses its high timing capability to study kilohertz quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs), and learn more about the properties of neutron stars. [General Audiences] [Sci/Tech Audiences] | 
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| NGC 3516: Stretching the limits of our knowledge of the variability of AGN. R. Edelson uses RXTE to probe the variability of a bright AGN on small and large time scales. [General Audience] [Sci/Tech Audience] |
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| RXTE Observes Outbursts in Two Dwarf Novae. RXTE is utilized, along with optical and extreme- ultraviolet observations, to monitor outbursts in the two brightest dwarf novae in the sky - SS Cygni and U Geminorum. [Sci/Tech Audiences] |
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| Caught in the Act! Coel Hellier and coworkers catch a cataclysmic variable in outburst. [Sci/Tech Audiences] |
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| Fast Young Rotation Powered Pulsar Detected in the LMC 16ms Pulsar discovered in SNR N157B. ASCA data assist to constrain the age of the pulsar and its initial spin period. [General Audience] [Sci/Tech Audience] |
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| Public Outbursts Public Observations of the Bursting Pulsar GRO J1744-28 reveal an object that exibits a variety of time variability. [General Audience] [Sci/Tech Audience] |
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| Long Term Variability in the Enigmatic Star Eta Carina Mike Corcoran and co-workers continue their long term monitoring of this extremely massive star, which reveals tantalizing clues about its nature. [Sci/Tech Audiences] |
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| Soft Gamma Repeater found to be an X-ray Pulsar Pulsation period and derivative suggest spindown due to strong magnetic field. [General Audience] [Sci/Tech Audience] |
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| Simultaneous UV/X-ray monitoring of AGN Paul Nandra compares the results of a month-long RXTE monitoring campaign with simultaneous IUE observations, with consequences for models of the continuum emission of AGN. [Sci/Tech Audiences] | 
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| Pulsars in the SMC: near SMC X-3. Jim Lochner and RXTE staff memebers uncover a plethora of transient pulsars. (March 1998) [General Audience] [Sci/Tech Audience] |
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| Absorption Dips in GRO J1655-40. E. Kuulkers investigates properties of intensity dips in a black-hole candidate X-ray binary. [General Audience] [Sci/Tech Audience] | 
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