Padi Boyd is a JCA-UMBC Research Scientist at the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA), at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).

• Current Project: Duty Scientist with the X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) Guest Observer Facility .

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• Past Project: Scientific support for the MOnitoring X-ray Experiment (MOXE) , an X-ray all-sky monitor being readied for flight on the Russian X-ray Telescope Spectrum X-Gamma. Launch date tentatively scheduled for the end of 2001.

  
  

• Other projects:
  
• analysis of data from the High Speed Photometer, a first generation Hubble Space Telescope Scientific Instrument

  
  

• Past Secretary/Treasurer of the Division of Astrophysics of the American Physical Society (APS)

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• Public Outreach: check out our online learning centers, Starchild and the High Energy Astrophysics Learning Center

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• Teacher Resource: AstroCappella! A rockin', doo-woppin' set of a cappella songs about astronomy and physics concepts aimed at middle school kids and above, being developed through support of the NASA IDEA program.

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NEW:

• The Long-term Light Curves of X-ray Binaries Contain Simultaneous Periodic and Random Components , Submitted to ApJ, September 30, 2002