Dr. Richard E. Rothschild, HEXTE Principal Investigator, CASS/UCSD

Dr. Richard E. Rothschild, Research Physicist
Principal Investigator, HEXTE

Address:
Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences, 0111
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0111
Phone: (619) 534-3462. Fax: (619) 534-2294
E-mail: rrothschild@ucsd.edu

Education:
A.B. (Physics), Washington University, 1965
M.S. (Physics), University of Arizona, 1968
Ph.D. (Physics), University of Arizona, 1971

Honors/Awards:
NAS/NRC Resident Research Fellowship, 1973
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1996

Memberships:
American Physical Society
American Astronomical Society

Research Experience:
1984-Present: Research Physicist, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1981-1984: Associate Research Physicist, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1977-1981: Assistant Research Physicist, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1975-1977: Astrophysicist, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
1972-1975: NAS/NRC Resident Research Associate, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
1971-1972: Research Associate, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1966-1971: Graduate Research Assistant, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1965-1966: Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Important Publications:

"Millisecond Temporal Structure in Cygnus X-1"
Rothschild, R.E. et al. 1974, Ap. J. (Letters), 189, L13.
"The Diffuse X-ray Background Spectrum from 3 to 50 keV"
Marshall, F.E. et al. 1979, ap. J., 235, 4.
"A High Sensitivity Determination of the Hard X-Ray Spectrum of Sco X-1"
Rothschild, R.E. et al. 1980, Nature, 286, 786.
"The X-Ray Spectrum of AM Her from 0.1-150 keV"
Rothschild, R.E. et al. 1981, Ap. J., 250, 723.
"2-165 keV Observations of Active Galaxies and the Diffuse Background"
Rothschild, R.E. et al. 1983, Ap. J., 269, 423.
"Observations of a Hard X-Ray component in the Spectrum of Nova Ophiuchi"
Rothschild, R.E. et al. 1983, Ap. J., 274, 717.
"The HEAO-1 A4 Catalog of High Energy X-Ray Sources"
Levine, A.M. et al. 1984, Ap. J. Suppl., 54, 581.
"Two Binary Cycles of GX301-2"
Rothschild, R.E. and Soong, Y. 1987, Ap. J., 315, 154.
"A Rapid Change of the Her X-1 Pulse Profile and High State Duration"
Soong, Y., Gruber, D.E., and Rothschild, R.E. 1987, Ap. J. (Letters), 319, L77.
"Discovery of an X-ray Source Coincident with the Soft Gamma-ray Repeater 0525-66"
Rothschild, R.E. et al. 1994, Nature, 368, 432.
"The Continuous Hard X-ray Imager for Astrophysics"
Rothschild, R. E. et. al 1995, Proceedings of the SPIE, 2518, 13.