Stefan Dieters

Long-term Periodicities in the Flux from Low Mass X-ray Binaries (2005)

Dieters, Stefan, O'Neill, Paul, Farrell, Sean, Sood, Ravi

Using data from the All Sky Monitor (ASM) on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) we have searched for long term periodicities in the X-ray flux of GX 1+4, Sco X-2 (GX 349+2), and GX 339-4. For GX...

An Unusual Burst from Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1900+14: Comparisons with Giant Flares and Implications for the Magnetar Model (2000)

Ibrahim, Alaa I., Strohmayer, Tod E., Woods, Peter M., Kouveliotou, Chryssa, Thompson, Christopher, Duncan, Robert C., ...

The Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1900+14 entered a remarkable phase of activity during the summer of 1998. This activity peaked on August 27, 1998 when a giant periodic gamma-ray flare resembling the...

Timing Noise in SGR 1806-20 (2000)

Woods, Peter M., Kouveliotou, Chryssa, Finger, Mark H., Gogus, Ersin, Scott, D. Matthew, Dieters, Stefan, ...

We have phase connected a sequence of RXTE PCA observations of SGR 1806-20 covering 178 days. We find a simple secular spin-down model does not adequately fit the data. The period derivative varies...

Discovery of a New Soft Gamma Repeater, SGR 1627-41 (1999)

Woods, Peter M., Kouveliotou, Chryssa, Van Paradijs, Jan, Hurley, Kevin, Kippen, R. Marc, Finger, Mark H., ...

We report the discovery of a new soft gamma repeater (SGR), SGR 1627-41, and present BATSE observations of the burst emission and BeppoSAX NFI observations of the probable persistent X-ray...

Discovery of a magnetar associated with the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1900+14 (1998)

Kouveliotou, Chryssa, Strohmayer, Tod, Hurley, Kevin, Van Paradijs, Jan, Finger, Mark H., Dieters, Stefan, ...

The soft-gamma repeater SGR 1900+14 became active again on June 1998 after a long period of quiescence; it remained at a low state of activity until August 1998, when it emitted a series of...

RXTE Observations of the Anomalous Pulsar 4U 0142+61 (1998)

Wilson, Colleen A., Dieters, Stefan, Finger, Mark H., Scott, D. Matthew, Van Paradijs, Jan

We observed the anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61 using the Proportional Counter Array (PCA) aboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) in March 1996. The pulse frequency was measured as f =...