The BAT-Swift Science Software
Astrophysics
2010-12-13 v1
Abstract
The BAT instrument tells the Swift satellite where to point to make immediate follow-up observations of GRBs. The science software on board must efficiently process gamma-ray events coming in at up to 34 kHz, identify rate increases that could be due to GRBs while disregarding those from known sources, and produce images to accurately and rapidly locate new Gamma-ray sources.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0408494,
title = {The BAT-Swift Science Software},
author = {D. M. Palmer and E. Fenimore and M. Galassi and K. McLean and T. Tavenner and S. Barthelmy and M. Blau and J. Cummings and N. Gehrels and D. Hullinger and H. Krimm and C. Markwardt and R. Mason. J. Ong and J. Polk and A. Parsons and L. Shackleford and J. Tueller and S. Wallings and Y. Okada and H. Takahashi and M. Toshiro and M. Suzuki and G. Sato and T. Takahashi and S. Watanabe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0408494},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
4 pages, no figures, to appear in Santa Fe proceedings "Gamma-Ray Bursts: 30 Years of Discovery", Fenimore and Galassi (eds), AIP, 2004