GSFC Home Page of Craig Markwardt

Greetings. I am a member of the RXTE PCA and Swift BAT instrument teams.

Galactic Bulge Scans

Galactic Bulge Scans - Long term light curves of X-ray sources in the galactic bulge region

Instrument Information

For information about the RXTE PCA instrument, please see the

PCA Digest Page - easy download listings and basic information
RXTE PCA Instrument Page - detailed descriptions of instrument performance

For information about the Swift BAT instrument, please see the

BAT Digest Page - quick descriptions of instrument performance
BAT Analysis Threads - analysis recipes
Swift CALDB Page - calibration files and documentation
For Firefox users, you can use these GCN Greasemonkey scripts to make the GCN website even more useful.

Older Reports

Galactic Bulge Scans - Open to RXTE Investigators
The JPL Ephemeris and Barycentering - Jun 2001
Report of the RXTE Attitude Anomaly of September, 2000 - Oct 2001
RXTE PCA Slew Exposure Maps - Oct 2001
Notes on ATDF Doppler Tracking data - Feb 2002
Advice for Users of New RXTE PCA Background Models - Feb 2002
BAT Effective Area Curves - Mar 2002
A Correction to RXTE PCA Background Models - Apr 2004
Day of Year Calendars:
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029
Galactic bulge scan plans
Swift / RXTE joint visibility windows

Personal

My personal blog has some techie stuff.