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In this paper, we report on the observational performance of the Swift Ultra-violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) in response to the Gravitational Wave alerts announced by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and the…

We present the first comprehensive source catalog (UVIT DR1) of ultraviolet (UV) photometry in four far-UV (FUV $\sim$1300$-$1800 \AA) and five near-UV (NUV $\sim$2000$-$3000 \AA) filters of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 Sonika Piridi , Ranjan Kumar , Divya Pandey , Ananta C. Pradhan

The UV/Optical Telescope (UVOT) is one of three instruments flying aboard the Swift Gamma-ray Observatory. It is designed to capture the early (approximately 1 minute) UV and optical photons from the afterglow of gamma-ray bursts in the…

We present the first Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow catalog. The catalog contains data from over 64,000 independent UVOT image observations of 229 GRBs first detected by Swift, the High Energy…

We present the second Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow catalog, greatly expanding on the first Swift UVOT GRB afterglow catalog. The second catalog is constructed from a database containing over…

The Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) is one of three instruments onboard the Swift observatory. The photometric calibration has been published, and this paper follows up with details on other aspects of the calibration including a…

The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Ultraviolet Source Survey (XMM-SUSS) is a catalogue of ultraviolet (UV) sources detected serendipitously by the Optical Monitor (XMM-OM) on-board the XMM-Newton observatory. The catalogue contains…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. J. Page , C. Brindle , A. Talavera , M. Still , S. R. Rosen , V. N. Yershov , H. Ziaeepour , K. O. Mason , M. S. Cropper , A. A. Breeveld , N. Loiseau , R. Mignani , A. Smith , P. Murdin

Swift is a multi-wavelength observatory specifically designed for gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy that is operational since 2004. Swift is also a very flexible multi-purpose facility that supports a wide range of scientific fields such as…

The Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard India's first dedicated multiwavelength satellite \textit{AstroSat} observed a significant fraction of the sky in the ultraviolet with a spatial resolution of 1.4\arcsec. We present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Swagat Bordoloi , P. Shalima , Rupjyoti Gogoi , Jayant Murthy

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 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…

Three fields in the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud were observed by the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board AstroSat, during 31 December 2017 and 01 January 2018. The observations were carried out on a total of seven…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Ashish Devaraj , Prajwel Joseph , C. S. Stalin , Shyam N. Tandon , Swarna K. Ghosh

We present the photometric calibration of the Swift UltraViolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) which includes: optimum photometric and background apertures, effective area curves, colour transformations, conversion factors for count rates to…

We present X-ray point source catalogs obtained from archival Swift observations that have partially or fully covered the 95% confidence error contour of unidentified Fermi sources. In total, 21 out of 37 unidentified Fermi sources have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-12 N. Mirabal

We present the entire sample of ultraviolet (UV) spectra of supernovae (SNe) obtained with the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) on board the Swift satellite during the first 2 years of observations (2005/2006). A total of 29 UV-grism…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 F. Bufano , S. Immler , M. Turatto , W. Landsman , P. Brown , S. Benetti , E. Cappellaro , S. T. Holland , P. Mazzali , P. Milne , N. Panagia , E. Pian , P. Roming , L. Zampieri , A. A. Breeveld , N. Gehrels

Despite the prevalence of transient-searching facilities operating across most wavelengths, the ultraviolet (UV) transient sky remains to be systematically studied. We have recently initiated the Transient Ultraviolet Objects (TUVO)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 David Modiano , Rudy Wijnands , Aastha Parikh , Jari van Opijnen , Sill Verberne , Marieke van Etten

The most recent all-sky surveys performed with the INTEGRAL and SWIFT satellites allowed the detection of more than 1500 sources in hard X-rays above 20 keV. About one quarter of them has no obvious counterpart at other wavelengths and…

The ultraviolet/optical telescope (UVOT) onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is capable of imaging with 7 lenticular filters and of taking slitless spectra with 2 grisms. Both image and grism data have been widely used to study…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Hao Zhou , Stefano Covino , Zhi-Ping Jin , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei , N. Paul Kuin

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 introduce the first phase of the Kepler-Swift Active Galaxies and Stars survey (KSwAGS), a simultaneous X-ray and UV survey of ~6 square degrees of the Kepler field using the Swift XRT and UVOT. We detect 93 unique X-ray sources with…

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