CRESST News

May, 2008

Dr. Fotis Gariil's work on magnetar-like X-ray bursts from the young  pulsar
PSR J18460258 in the SNR Kes 75 is featured in the June issue of  Sky & 
Telescope (which also features GLAST as a cover story). The original  
paper appeared in the March 28th issue of Science. The article also  
appeared in ScienceXpress (Feb 21), and was a NASA/GSFC News "Top Story"  
in Feb.    Links to the articles can be found at  http://jca.umbc.edu/csst/news/news.shtml

December, 2007

Two CRESST scientists received GSFC Honor Awards:

Sudip Bhattacharyya (Space Science Achievement): In recognition of his "pioneering x-ray studies of neutron stars to explore and test fundamental physical theories in extreme environments."

Stefan Immler (Space Science Achievement): In recognition of his "innovative use of Swift to explore X-ray emission from supernovae."

October, 2007

Dr. Takanori Sakamoto joins the CRESST consortium at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Taka has been at NASA/GSFC since 2004, and is a Swift BAT team member. He is involved in a development of the automatic pipeline scripts of the BAT GRB data and also in on-board calibration of the energy response matrices of the BAT. His primary science interest is the radiation process of the prompt GRB emission, and is collecting multiwavelength data to investigate the spectral and temporal characteristics of the prompt GRB emission. He is also interested in using GRBs as a cosmological tool.

October, 2007

Dr. Katja Pottschmidt joins the CRESST consortium, at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is working in the INTEGRAL GOF at NASA/GSFC. Previously, Katja worked as a member of the RXTE-HEXTE team at the University of California, San Diego and prior to that as an archive scientist at the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre in Versoix, near Geneva Switzerland. Her main research interest are X-ray binaries, especially black hole binaries and accreting X-ray pulsars, using high resolution X-ray timing analysis including higher order Fourier statistics. Katja also studies the accretion columns and magnetic fields of X-ray pulsars by modeling their broad band spectra, including cyclotron resonance scattering features.