We present the first Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope Serendipitous Source Catalogue (UVOTSSC). The catalogue was compiled from 23,059 Swift datasets taken within the first five years of observations with the Swift UVOT. A purpose-built processing pipeline, based around the standard Swift processing tools, was employed. The catalogue contains positions, photometry in three UV and three optical bands, morphological information and data quality flags. In total, the catalogue contains 6,200,016 unique sources of which more than 2 million have multiple observations in the catalogue.
@article{arxiv.1503.06597,
title = {The Swift UVOT serendipitous source catalogue},
author = {M. Page and V. Yershov and A. Breeveld and N. P. M. Kuin and R. P. Mignani and P. J. Smith and J. I. Rawlings and S. R. Oates and M. Siegel and P. W. A. Roming},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.06597},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in Proceedings of "Swift: 10 years of discovery", Rome, 2-5 December 2014