Centaurus X-3

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RXTE/ASM lightcurves of Cen X-3. Blue thick arrows designate Chandra Observation times, blue thin arrows designate Suzaku obsevation times, red arrows designate RXTE observation times, black arrows designate unidentified observation times.
Compiled by Michael Lannum, July 28, 2009. Updated by Harry Hausner, July 6, 2010.
List of Observation Times:


Instrument		Exposure time			Date			Julian Date

XTE There are 9 observations from this instrument, ranging from 1996-03-01 08:43:01.3 (2450143.863 UTC) to 2000-02-05 19:36:07.2 (2451580.316 UTC) and all above 10,000 seconds exposure time (from 11520 sec to 119968 sec).

ASCA			59664 (gis)		1995-02-01 10:18:14		2449749.929 UTC
			53408 (sis)

			39744 (gis)		1993-06-24 01:27:52		2449162.561 UTC
			37984 (sis)

Chandra (ACIS-S)	46780			2000-12-30 00:12:26		2451908.508 UTC
(HETG on)		39950			2007-09-12 11:05:55		2454355.962 UTC
			39630			2000-03-05 08:09:11		2451608.839 UTC

Suzaku			97587.1		2008-12-08 06:55:36		2454808.788 UTC

CGRO/COMPTEL There are 16 observations from this instrument, ranging from 1991-05-10 22:06:14.4 (2448387.421 UTC) to 1993-08-17 22:55:12 (2449217.455 UTC) and all above 10,000 seconds exposure time (from 74324 sec to 1810936 sec).

RXTE/ASM lightcurves of Cen X-3. Blue arrows designate Chandra observation times. Red arrows designate HST observation times.