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(abridged) We present a new sample of X-ray selected galaxy groups and clusters serendipitously observed with Swift and the X-ray Telescope (XRT). We searched the XRT archive for extended sources among 336 GRB fields with galactic latitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-15 Elena Tundo , Alberto Moretti , Paolo Tozzi , Liu Teng , Piero Rosati , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Sergio Campana

We present the 1SXPS (Swift-XRT Point Source) catalog of 151,524 X-ray point-sources detected by the Swift-XRT in 8 years of operation. The catalog covers 1905 square degrees distributed approximately uniformly on the sky. We analyze the…

Swift is a satellite equipped with gamma-ray, X-ray, and optical-UV instruments aimed at discovering, localizing and collecting data from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Launched at the end of 2004, this small-size mission finds about a hundred…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Savaglio , U. Grothkopf

We present the 2SXPS (Swift-XRT Point Source) catalog, containing 206,335 point sources detected by the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) in the 0.3--10 keV energy range. This catalog represents a significant improvement over 1SXPS, with double…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 P. A. Evans , K. L. Page , J. P. Osborne , A. P. Beardmore , R. Willingale , D. N. Burrows , J. A. Kennea , M. Perri , M. Capalbi , G. Tagliaferri , S. B. Cenko

We searched for X-ray serendipitous sources in over 370 Swift-XRT fields centered on gamma ray bursts detected between 2004 and 2008 and observed with total exposures ranging from 10 ks to over 1 Ms. This defines the Swift Serendipitous…

The Swift spacecraft detects and autonomously observes ~100 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) per year, ~96% of which are detected by the X-ray telescope (XRT). GRBs are accompanied by optical transients and the field of ground-based follow-up of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-06 P. A. Evans , L. G. Tyler , A. P. Beardmore , J. P. Osborne

We consider the prospects for a complete survey of the 18,811 sources of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog (BSC) with NASA's Swift gamma-ray burst (GRB) mission. By observing each BSC source for 500 s with the satellite's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Derek B. Fox

We present the Swift X-ray Cluster Survey (SWXCS) catalog obtained using archival data from the X-ray telescope (XRT) on board the Swift satellite acquired from 2005 to 2012, extending the first release of the SWXCS. The catalog provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-16 Teng Liu , Paolo Tozzi , Elena Tundo , Alberto Moretti , Piero Rosati , Jun-Xian Wang , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Sergio Campana , Mauro Giavalisco

We present a comprehensive catalog of 251 potential counterparts for 250 unassociated hard X-ray sources detected in the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) 150-month hard X-ray survey. Over 150 months of observation, BAT has detected 2339…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 K. Imam , N. Torres-Alba , S. Marchesi , M. Ajello , S. Joffre , I. Cox , A. Pizzetti , X. Zhao , A. Segreto , A. Banerjee , I. Pal , V. E. Gianolli , D. Stern

We present a catalog of hard X-ray sources detected in the first 105 months of observations with the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) coded mask imager on board the Swift observatory. The 105 month Swift-BAT survey is a uniform hard X-ray…

We present deep Swift follow-up observations of a sample of 94 unidentified X-ray sources from the XMM-Newton Slew Survey. The X-ray Telescope on-board Swift detected 29% of the sample sources; the flux limits for undetected sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 R. L. C. Starling , P. A. Evans , A. M. Read , R. D. Saxton , P. Esquej , H. Krimm , P. T. O'Brien , J. P. Osborne , S. Mateos , R. Warwick , K. Wiersema

The Swift Gamma-Ray Explorer is designed to make prompt multiwavelength observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and GRB afterglows. The X-ray Telescope (XRT) enables Swift to determine GRB positions with a few arcseconds accuracy within 100…

The X-ray Telescope (XRT), on board the {\it Swift} satellite, provides: automated source detection and position with few arcsecond accuracy within few seconds from target acquisition; CCD spectroscopy and imaging capability (0.2-10 keV),…

The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, launched on 2004 November 20, is a multiwavelength, autonomous, rapid-slewing observatory for gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy. On 2004 December 23, during the activation phase of the mission, the Swift…

We present a homogeneous X-ray analysis of all 318 Gamma Ray Bursts detected by the X-ray Telescope on the Swift satellite up to 2008 July 23; this represents the largest sample of X-ray GRB data published to date. In Sections 2--3 we…

The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift observatory has been serving as a survey instrument for the hard X-ray sky, and has detected thousands of X-ray sources (e.g., AGNs, X-ray binaries, etc). BAT monitors these…

We present science highlights and performance from the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT), which was launched on November 20, 2004. The XRT covers the 0.2-10 keV band, and spends most of its time observing gamma-ray burst (GRB)afterglows, though…

We present the catalog of sources detected in 70 months of observations of the BAT hard X-ray detector on the Swift gamma-ray burst observatory. The Swift-BAT 70 month survey has detected 1171 hard X-ray sources (more than twice as many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 W. H. Baumgartner , J. Tueller , C. B. Markwardt , G. K. Skinner , S. Barthelmy , R. F. Mushotzky , P. Evans , N. Gehrels

In 2006 February, shortly after its launch, Swift began monitoring the center of the Milky Way with the onboard X-Ray Telescope using short 1-ks exposures performed every 1-4 days. Between 2006 and 2014, over 1200 observations have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-27 N. Degenaar , R. Wijnands , J. M. Miller , M. T. Reynolds , J. Kennea , N. Gehrels

The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer performed its first autonomous, X-ray follow-up to a newly detected GRB on 2005 January 17, within 193 seconds of the burst trigger by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope. While the burst was still in…

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