About RXTE

milliCrab

One thousandth of the intensity of the Crab nebula. X-ray astronomers use this unit when comparing observations from different X-ray detectors on different instruments. On RXTE, for example:

Instrument

1 mCrab=

PCA

2.786 counts/s/pcu

HEXTE

0.250 counts/s per cluster

ASM

0.075 counts/s per camera