{
  "id": "astro-ph/9608109",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1996-08-16T19:33:59.000Z",
  "updated": "1996-08-16T19:33:59.000Z",
  "title": "First Results from the All-Sky Monitor on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer",
  "authors": [
    "Alan M. Levine",
    "Hale Bradt",
    "Wei Cui",
    "J. G. Jernigan",
    "Edward H. Morgan",
    "Ronald Remillard",
    "Robert E. Shirey",
    "Donald A. Smith"
  ],
  "comment": "9 pages, LaTeX type (aas2pp4.sty), one bitmapped and two PostScript figures, to appear in ApJL, September 20, 1996",
  "journal": "Astrophys.J.469:L33,1996",
  "doi": "10.1086/310260",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "The All-Sky Monitor on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer has been monitoring the sky in the 1.5 - 12 keV band since late February. The instrument consists of three coded-aperture cameras which can be rotated to view different regions by a motorized drive assembly. Intensities of ~100 known sources are obtained via least-square fits of shadow patterns to the data and compiled to form x-ray light curves. Six orbital periodicities and four long-term periodicities, all previously known, have been detected in these light curves. Searches for additional sources have also been conducted. X-ray light curves for the Crab Nebula, Cyg X-1, 4U 1705-44, GRO J1655-40, and SMC X-1 are reported. They illustrate the quality of the results and the range of observed phenomena.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1996-08-16T19:33:59.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "rossi x-ray timing explorer",
      "all-sky monitor",
      "first results",
      "form x-ray light curves",
      "least-square fits"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article",
      "famous paper"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 9,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 436491
    }
  }
}