Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "X-rays"

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    • The REgolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) for OSIRIS-REx: identifying regional elemental enrichment on asteroids 

      Allen, Branden T; Grindlay, Jonathan E.; Hong, Jaesub; Binzel, Richard P.; Masterson, Rebecca; Inamdar, Niraj K.; Chodas, Mark; Smith, Matthew W.; Bautz, Marshall W.; Kissel, Steven E.; Villasenor, Joel; Oprescu, Miruna; Induni, Nicholas Mayne (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2013)
      The OSIRIS-REx Mission was selected under the NASA New Frontiers program and is scheduled for launch in September of 2016 for a rendezvous with, and collection of a sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2019. 101955 ...

    • X-ray flare candidates in short gamma-ray bursts 

      Margutti, R; Chincarini, G.; Granot, J.; Guidorzi, C.; Berger, Edo; Bernardini, M. G.; Gehrels, N.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Stamatikos, M.; Zaninoni, E. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011)
      We present the first systematic study of X-ray flare candidates in short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) exploiting the large 6-year Swift database with the aim to constrain the physical nature of such fluctuations. We find that ...