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Agenda for RXTE Symposium and Deadline Reminder
Updates on RXTE Symposium and Banquet
16 Years of Discovery with RXTE: A Celebration of the Mission

Archive of Messages sent to XTENEWS Mailing List

Archive of all RXTE Publications (RXTE Results page)

RXTE Science Highlights (Press Releases, etc.)

March 17, 2012

The Agenda for the Symposium is now available.

The deadline to purchase tickets to the reunion banquet is Tues., March 27, 2012.

If you plan to attend the Symposium please make sure you have registered (it's free!), so that we can have an accurate headcount to prepare coffee, etc., for the event.

February 15, 2012

• Obtain your Visitor Badge as soon as possible. This is a multi-week process in most cases, so submit the forms right away.
• Deadline for Hotel Reservations is Monday, February 27.
• Deadline for Banquet/Reunion tickets is Tuesday, March 27.
• Please Register for the Symposium if you plan to attend. There is no charge for attendance; information on submitting poster abstracts is included.

January 23, 2012

• Archive of Messages sent to XTENEWS Mailing List
• RXTE Science Highlights (Press Releases, etc.)

Other RXTE News Items, by Year

2012

RXTE Completes Mission Operations (January 11, 2012)
RXTE Helps Pinpoint Launch of 'Bullets' in a Black Hole's Jet (January 11, 2012)
The RXTE Mission is Approaching the End of Science Operations (January 3, 2012)

RXTE Detects "Heartbeat" of Smallest Black Hole Candidate (December 21, 2011)
Interruption to RXTE Planned Observation Schedule (December 14, 2011)
RXTE Special Session at January 2012 AAS Meeting: Abstract Deadline (September 28, 2011)
Interruption to RXTE Planned Observation Schedule (September 14, 2011)
RXTE Special Session at January 2012 AAS: Schedule and Details (August 4, 2011)
The Recent Problem With the RXTE Ground System Has Been Fixed (July 1, 2011)
RXTE Operations Team Having Trouble Conducting the Usual Contacts with the Spacecraft (June 30, 2011)
RXTE Special Session at the January 2012 meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) (June 22, 2011)
Updates to RXTE Software, including Improved Calibration Tool (June 14, 2011)
Update on the Status and Future of RXTE (May 17, 2011)
RXTE Celebrates 15 Years of Discovery (March 4, 2011)
RXTE Resumes Normal Operations (March 3, 2011)
RXTE Temporarily Suspends Slewing (March 2, 2011)

RXTE Cycle 15 Accepted Program Now Available (November 28, 2010)
Updated RXTE Tools in Latest HEASOFT Release (6.10) (November 28, 2010)
RXTE Team Updates ASM Color and Lightcurve Data (November 28, 2010)
Eclipsing Pulsar Promises Clues to Crushed Matter(August 17, 2010)
RXTE Homes in on a Black Hole's Jets(July 1, 2010)
HEXTE Cluster B Update(April 20, 2009)
RXTE Discovers Spin Period of New SGR 1833-0832(March 31, 2010)
Updated RXTE Software Now Available(March 29, 2010)
RXTE Team Resolves Inertial-Hold Situation(January 31, 2010)
RXTE HEXTE Cluster B Currently Staring (January 20, 2010)

RXTE Workshop Presentations Now on the Web (December 8, 2009)
Updated RXTE Background Software, and other tools Now Available (December 6, 2009)
RXTE Cycle 14 Accepted Program Now Available (November 25, 2009)
RXTE Workshop to follow Fermi Symposium (October 12, 2009)
RXTE Returns to Normal Operations (October 2, 2009)
RXTE in Inertial Hold on IGR J17511-3057 due to Spacecraft Anomaly (September 23, 2009)
RXTE Anomaly Effects Observations on Sept. 10-11 (September 11, 2009)
Improvements to the PCA Response Matrix Now Available (August 19, 2009)
Reminder: Cycle 14 Proposals are Due August 13 at 17:00 EDT (August 4, 2009)
RXTE Cycle 14 Information for Proposers (June 18, 2009)
RXTE Discovers Pulsations of New SGR (June 10, 2009)
RXTE Mission Extended Through Sept. 2010 (May 12, 2009)
Timing Error Fixed in January 2006 data (January 16, 2009)
Recommended Cycle 13 Open Time Targets (January 15, 2009)

PCA: Filter Out Breakdown Events (December 16, 2008)
Two Black Holes Teach Astronomers a Lesson (October 15, 2008)
RXTE Cycle 13 Announced (September 19, 2008)
RXTE SOF Realtime Data Area Has Moved (August 14, 2008)
New RXTE Mission-Long Data Products (May 12, 2008)
RXTE Discovers Stellar Ticking Time Bomb Explodes on Cue (April 30, 2008)
RXTE Finds Smallest Known Black Hole (April 1, 2008)
Powerful Explosions Suggest Neutron Star Missing Link (February 21, 2008)
PCA SAA History File Production Resumes (February 1, 2008)
Temporary Interruption of PCA SAA History File Production (January 22, 2008)
ASM Source Intensity Errors for Sources in Crowded Fields (infrequent but significant) (January 2008)

2007:

IMPORTANT: Problems and Corrections to RXTE PCA Background (September 18, 2007)
Bizarre Planet-Mass Object Found Orbiting Neutron Star (September 12, 2007)
Brief period of incomplete Archive-mode data from HEXTE Cluster A (May 21, 2007)
Recommended Cycle 12 Targets Released! (May 2, 2007)
RXTE Archive Downtime: 18:00 Jul 13 - 12:00 Jul 14, EDT (July 11, 2007)
RXTE Cycle 12 Proposal Deadline is Past! Review Preparations Underway! (March 23, 2007)
RXTE Cycle 12 Update & Deadline Reminder (January 26. 2007)
TNO Occultations May Be Instrumental Deadtime January 16, 2007
PCU 1 Loses Top Propane Layer (January 12, 2007)

2006:

New RXTE Software Available (HEAsoft 6.1.2) (December 8, 2006)
Active Galactic Nuclei as scaled-up Galactic Black Holes (December 7, 2006)
RXTE Catches Black Hole Spinning at near Light Speed (November 20, 2006)
RXTE Cycle 12 Announced (October 23, 2006)
HEXTE Cluster "A" Now Fixed-Pointing (October 20, 2006)
RXTE Used to Detect Trans-Neptunian Objects (August 10, 2006)
New PCA Background Models Released August 6, 2006
Pulsar Quakes Now Predictable! (June 5, 2006)
Cycle 11 Budget Deadline Has Passed (March 20, 2006)
RXTE Discovers source of Galactic X-ray Background ( February 22, 2006)
Information for Submitting Cycle 11 Budgets (February 7, 2006)
RXTE Researchers receive Rossi Prize! (January 18, 2006)
Hot New RXTE Results from the AAS Meeting in Washington, D.C. (January 11, 2006)
HEXTE Cluster A Rocking Anomaly (January 8, 2006)

2005:

Recommended RXTE Cycle 11 Targets Released! (November 28, 2005)
RXTE Birthday Party & Mini-Conference (October 18, 2005)
RXTE Cycle 11: NSPIRES Guidance (September 15, 2005)
RXTE Cycle 11: Important Changes (June 29, 2005)
HEXTE Cluster A News (January 26, 2005)
Cycle 10 Budget Information Now Available (January 25, 2005)
RXTE Sees Hot Matter "Surf" Around Black Hole (January 10, 2005)

2004:

Recommended RXTE Cycle 10 Targets Released! (December 3, 2004)
Cycle 10 Deadline Past---Proposals are In! (September 28, 2004)
RXTE & XMM Squeeze Neuton Star Equation of State (September 8, 2004))
RXTE Cycle 10 Proposal Due Date Extended to September 20, 2004; GO Funding May Increase! (July 27, 2004)
Michiel van der Klis wins NWO Spinoza prize! (June 24, 2004)
RXTE Cycle 10: Shaping the Next Decade of XTE Science! (June 14, 2004)
New Email Addresses to Contact the RXTE Science Operations Facility (SOF) (May 4, 2004)
Corrected Faint Background Models now Available (April 13, 2004)
March 2004 RXTE Paper of the Month (April 2004)
RXTE Sees Superburst Effect Accretion Disk in Real Time (March 18, 2004)
New! RXTE-related Astronomical Notices (March 17, 2004)
RXTE Catches Morphing Magnetar (January 28, 2004)

2003:

Recommended RXTE Cycle 9 Targets Released! (December 1, 2003)
Cosmic Brakes for Pulsars? (July 2, 2003)
Instructions for RXTE Cycle 9 Proposers Now on Web (June 13, 2003)
Recent RXTE Science Results (from HEAD Meeting) (June 1, 2003)
HEXTE Resumes Normal Operations After Short Interruption (April 3, 2003)
Stage 2 Budget Information (March 12, 2003)
Realtime Pseudo-Production Data Just Got Better! (March 5, 2003)
Cycle 8 Approved Observing Program (February 11, 2003)
Kouveliotou Shares Rossi Prize for RXTE Result! (January 15, 2003)

2002:

RXTE Cycle 8 Deadline has Passed! (November 26, 2002)
RXTE Detects Strongest Known Magnetic Field (November 4, 2002 )
The Nature of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (September 12, 2002)
New FTOOLS for Our Trade (June 25, 2002)
RXTE Breaks Six Figures, Shares with Public (June 12, 2002)
Discovery of Fastest Known Accreting Millisecond Pulsar (April 12, 2002)
Black Holes play the Same Tune (April 09, 2002)
New and Improved Background Models Released on New and Improved PCA Digest Page! (February 27, 2002)

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