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RXTE Observations M87: Investigating the Non-Thermal ContinuumThis is the final report for NASA grant NAG5-7329, awarded for the RXTE Cycle 3 Guest Observer Program, "RXTE Observations of M87: Investigating the nonthermal continuum". This grant totaled $8000 and was spent over 3 years (4/1998-4/2001). It supported analysis of RXTE observations of the nearby giant elliptical galaxy M87 with the RXTE satellite. The main aim of these observations was to search for non-thermal emission from the core of M87 and the famous jet. This grant also partially funded supporting theoretical work. The observational campaign was performed in December 1997 and January 1998, and we were given the final data tape in April 1998. Sebastian Heinz (then a graduated student in our group) and I started to work on the data immediately. The results of our detailed analysis were submitted to the Astrophysical Journal in November 1998, and accepted for publication in March 1999. Tile paper was published in August, 1999. The journal reference is: A RXTE study of N187 and the core of the Virgo cluster, Reynolds C.S.,Heinx S., Fabian A.C., Begelman M.C., 1999, ApJ, 102, 1999. During this first year of the project, this grant supported Mr. Heinz's travel to the Paris Texas Symposium in December 1998, as well as providing funds for necessary maintenance of our computer system.
Document ID
20010045810
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Contractor or Grantee Report
Authors
Reynolds, Christopher S.
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, CO United States)
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2001
Subject Category
Astronomy
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-7329
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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