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Swift/UVOT discovery of Swift J221951-484240: a UV luminous ambiguous nuclear transient

We report the discovery of Swift J221951-484240 (hereafter: J221951), a luminous slow-evolving blue transient that was detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Ultra-violet/Optical Telescope (Swift/UVOT) during the follow-up of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 S. R. Oates , N. P. M. Kuin , M. Nicholl , F. Marshall , E. Ridley , K. Boutsia , A. A. Breeveld , D. A. H. Buckley , S. B. Cenko , M. De Pasquale , P. G. Edwards , M. Gromadzki , R. Gupta , S. Laha , N. Morrell , M. Orio , S. B. Pandey , M. J. Page , K. L. Page , T. Parsotan , A. Rau , P. Schady , J. Stevens , P. J. Brown , P. A. Evans , C. Gronwall , J. A. Kennea , N. J. Klingler , M. H. Siegel , A. Tohuvavohu , E. Ambrosi , S. D. Barthelmy , A. P. Beardmore , M. G. Bernardini , C. Bonnerot , S. Campana , R. Caputo , S. Ciroi , G. Cusumano , A. D'Ai , P. D'Avanzo , V. D'Elia , P. Giommi , D. H. Hartmann , H. A. Krimm , D. B. Malesani , A. Melandri , J. A. Nousek , P. T. O'Brien , J. P. Osborne , C. Pagani , D. M. Palmer , M. Perri , J. L. Racusin , T. Sakamoto , B. Sbarufatti , J. E. Schlieder , G. Tagliaferri , E. Troja , D. Xu

UV slope of z$\sim$3 bright ($L>L^{*}$) Lyman-break galaxies in the COSMOS field

We analyse a unique sample of 517 bright ($L>L^{*}$) LBGs at redshift z$\sim$3 in order to characterise the distribution of their UV slopes $\beta$ and infer their dust extinction under standard assumptions. We exploited multi-band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 S. Pilo , M. Castellano , A. Fontana , A. Grazian , K. Boutsia , L. Pentericci , E. Giallongo , E. Merlin , D. Paris , P. Santini

Empirical extinction coefficients for the Swift-UVOT optical-through-ultraviolet passbands

We calculated empirical reddening and extinction coefficients with respect to the dust reddening map of Schlegel et al. for the Swift-UVOT passbands, using the 'star pair' method and photometric data from the UVOT Serendipitous Source…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-24 Fang Yi , Yuan Haibo , Zhang Ruoyi , Gao Jian , Xu Shuai

Swift UVOT Observations of Core-Collapse SNe

We review recent UV observations of core-collapse supernovae (SNe) with the Swift Ultra-violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) during its first two years. Rest-frame UV photometry is useful for differentiating SN types by exploiting the UV-optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter J. Brown , Peter W. A. Roming , Daniel E. Vanden Berk , Stephen T. Holland , Stefan Immler , Peter Milne

Ultra-Long Gamma-Ray Bursts detection with SVOM/ECLAIRs

Ultra-long Gamma-Ray Bursts (ulGRBs) are Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with an unusually long emission in X and gamma rays, reaching durations of thousands of seconds. They could form a specific class of high-energy transient events, whose origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-24 Nicolas Dagoneau , Stéphane Schanne , Jean-Luc Atteia , Diego Götz , Bertrand Cordier

Swift UVOT observations of the 2015 outburst of V404 Cygni

The black-hole binary, V404 Cygni, went into outburst in June 2015, after 26 years of X-ray quiescence. We observed the outburst with the Neil Gehrels Swift observatory. We present optical/UV observations taken with the Swift Ultra-violet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 S. R. Oates , S. Motta , A. P. Beardmore , D. M. Russell , P. Gandhi , N. P. M. Kuin , M. De Pasquale , D. Altamirano , A. A. Breeveld , A. J. Castro-Tirado , C. Knigge , M. J. Page , D. Steeghs

Euclid. III. The NISP Instrument

The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) on board the Euclid satellite provides multiband photometry and R>=450 slitless grism spectroscopy in the 950-2020nm wavelength range. In this reference article we illuminate the…

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Borsato , L. Caillat , F. Cogato , C. Colodro-Conde , P. -E. Crouzet , V. Conforti , M. D'Alessandro , Y. Copin , J. -C. Cuillandre , J. E. Davies , S. Davini , A. Derosa , J. J. Diaz , S. Di Domizio , D. Di Ferdinando , R. Farinelli , A. G. Ferrari , F. Fornari , L. Gabarra , C. M. Gutierrez , F. Giacomini , P. Lagier , F. Gianotti , O. Krause , F. Madrid , F. Laudisio , J. Macias-Perez , G. Naletto , M. Niclas , J. Marpaud , N. Mauri , R. da Silva , F. Passalacqua , K. Paterson , L. Patrizii , I. Risso , B. G. B. Solheim , M. Scodeggio , P. Stassi , J. Steinwagner , M. Tenti , G. Testera , R. Travaglini , S. Tosi , A. Troja , O. Tubio , C. Valieri , C. Vescovi , S. Ventura , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , J. Amiaux , S. Andreon , H. Aussel , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , A. Basset , A. Bonchi , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , P. -Y. Chabaud , A. Cimatti , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , J. -G. Cuby , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , A. M. Di Giorgio , J. Dinis , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , S. Farrens , F. Faustini , P. Fosalba , S. Fotopoulou , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , P. Franzetti , S. Galeotta , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , B. R. Granett , A. Grazian , L. Guzzo , M. Hailey , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , H. Hoekstra , I. Hook , P. Hudelot , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , O. Lahav , V. Lindholm , J. Lorenzo Alvarez , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , J. Martignac , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , D. C. Masters , S. Maurogordato , H. J. McCracken , S. Mei , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , J. J. Mohr , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , R. C. 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Morris , C. Neissner , A. Pezzotta , M. Pöntinen , C. Porciani , Z. Sakr , V. Scottez , E. Sefusatti , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , V. Allevato , E. Aubourg , M. Ballardini , D. Bertacca , M. Bethermin , A. Blanchard , L. Blot , S. Borgani , A. S. Borlaff , S. Bruton , R. Cabanac , A. Calabro , G. Calderone , G. Canas-Herrera , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , G. Castignani , T. Castro , K. C. Chambers , Y. Charles , R. Chary , J. Colbert , S. Contarini , T. Contini , A. R. Cooray , M. Costanzi , O. Cucciati , B. De Caro , S. de la Torre , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , H. Dole , S. Escoffier , P. G. Ferreira , I. Ferrero , A. Finoguenov , A. Fontana , K. Ganga , J. García-Bellido , V. Gautard , E. Gaztanaga , G. Gozaliasl , A. Gregorio , A. Hall , W. G. Hartley , S. Hemmati , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , S. Hosseini , M. Huertas-Company , O. Ilbert , J. Jacobson , S. Joudaki , J. J. E. Kajava , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , C. C. Kirkpatrick , F. Lacasa , V. Le Brun , J. 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Kova{č}ić , S. Kruk , A. M. C. Le Brun , T. I. Liaudat , A. Montoro , A. Mora , C. Murray , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , M. Radovich , E. Sarpa , E. Tommasi , A. Viitanen , J. Lesgourgues , M. E. Levi , J. Martín-Fleitas

Investigating the need for a robust ultraviolet filter set aboard the Habitable Worlds Observatory

High resolution, ultraviolet imaging is often unavailable across the sky, even in heavily studied fields such as the Chandra Deep Field - South. The Habitable Worlds Observatory is one of two upcoming missions with the possibility of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Kyle Cook , Benne Holwerda , Clayton Robertson

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph for the James Webb Space Telescope -- III. Single Object Slitless Spectroscopy

The Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph instrument (NIRISS) is the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) contribution to the suite of four science instruments of JWST. As one of the three NIRISS observing modes, the Single Object Slitless…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Loic Albert , David Lafreniere , Rene Doyon , Etienne Artigau , Kevin Volk , Paul Goudfrooij , Andre R. Martel , Michael Radica , Jason Rowe , Nestor Espinoza , Arpita Roy , Joseph C. Filippazzo , Antoine Darveau-Bernier , Geert Jan Talens , Anand Sivaramakrishnan , Chris J. Willott , Alexander W. Fullerton , Stephanie LaMassa , John B. Hutchings , Neil Rowlands , M. Begona Vila , Julia Zhou , David Aldridge , Michael Maszkiewicz , Mathilde Beaulieu , Neil J. Cook , Caroline Piaulet , Pierre-Alexis Roy , Pierrot Lamontagne , Kim Morel , William Frost , Salma Salhi , Louis-Philippe Coulombe , Bjorn Benneke , Ryan J. MacDonald , Doug Johnstone , Jake D. Turner , Marylou Fournier-Tondreau , Romain Allart , Lisa Kaltenegger

Photometric redshifts for GRB afterglows from GROND and Swift/UVOT

We present a framework to obtain photometric redshifts (photo-zs) for gamma-ray burst afterglows. Using multi-band photometry from GROND and Swift/UVOT, photo-zs are derived for five GRBs for which spectroscopic redshifts are not available.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-11 T. Krühler , P. Schady , J. Greiner , P. Afonso , E. Bottacini , C. Clemens , R. Filgas , S. Klose , T. S. Koch , A. Küpcü-Yoldaş , S. R. Oates , E. F. Olivares , M. J. Page , S. McBreen , M. Nardini , A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu , A. Rau , P. W. A. Roming , A. Rossi , A. Updike , A. Yoldaş

WIDGET: System Performance and GRB Prompt Optical Observations

The WIDeField telescope for Gamma-ray burst Early Timing (WIDGET) is used for a fully automated, ultra-wide-field survey aimed at detecting the prompt optical emission associated with Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). WIDGET surveys the HETE-2 and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yuji Urata , Makoto S. Tashiro , Toru Tamagawa , Fumihiko Usui , Makoto Kuwahara , Hungmiao Lin , Shoichi Kageyama , Wataru Iwakiri , Takako Sugasahara , Kazuki Takahara , Natsuki Kodaka , Keiichi Abe , Keisuke Masuno , Kaori Onda

The optically unbiased GRB host (TOUGH) survey. V. VLT/X-shooter emission-line redshifts for Swift GRBs at z~2

We present simultaneous optical and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy of 19 Swift GRB host galaxies with VLT/X-shooter with the aim of measuring their redshifts. Galaxies were selected from The Optically Unbiased GRB Host (TOUGH) survey (15…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-13 Thomas Krühler , Daniele Malesani , Bo Milvang-Jensen , Johan P. U. Fynbo , Jens Hjorth , Páll Jakobsson , Andrew J. Levan , Martin Sparre , Nial R. Tanvir , Darach J. Watson

Optical Classification of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era

We propose a new method for the classification of optically dark gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), based on the X-ray and optical-to-X-ray spectral indices of GRB afterglows, and utilizing the spectral capabilities of Swift. This method depends less…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-19 A. J. van der Horst , C. Kouveliotou , N. Gehrels , E. Rol , R. A. M. J. Wijers , J. K. Cannizzo , J. Racusin , D. N. Burrows

Swift/UVOT Photometry of the Planetary Nebula WeBo 1: Unmasking A Faint Hot Companion Star

We present an analysis of over 150 ks of data on the planetary nebula WeBo 1 (PN G135.6+01.0) obtained with the Swift Ultraviolet Optical Telescope (UVOT). The central object of this nebula has previously been described as a late-type K…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael H. Siegel , Erik Hoversten , Howard E. Bond , Michele Stark , Alice A. Breeveld

Swiftly chasing gravitational waves across the sky in real-time

We introduce a new capability of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, dubbed `continuous commanding,' achieving 10 seconds latency response time on-orbit to unscheduled Target of Opportunity requests. This allows Swift to respond to early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Aaron Tohuvavohu , Jamie A. Kennea , Christopher J. Roberts , James DeLaunay , Samuele Ronchini , S. Bradley Cenko , Becca Ewing , Ryan Magee , Cody Messick , Surabhi Sachdev , Leo P. Singer

A sky survey of ultraviolet sources observed through AstroSat's UVIT: A point source catalog

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

Observations of Early Optical Afterglows

The Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) has performed extensive follow-up on 71 Swift Burst Alert Telescope triggered gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in its first ten months of operations. In this paper, we discuss some of the UV and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter W. A. Roming , Keith O. Mason

Swift-UVOT Observations of the X-Ray Flash 050406

We present Swift-UVOT data on the optical afterglow of the X-ray flash of 2005 April 6 (XRF 050406) from 88s to \sim 10^5s after the initial prompt gamma-ray emission. Our observations in the V, B and U bands are the earliest that have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Schady , K. O. Mason , J. P. Osborne , M. J. Page , P. W. A. Roming , M. Still , B. Zhang , A. J. Blustin , P. Boyd , A. Cucchiara , N. Gehrels , C. Gronwall , M. De Pasquale , S. T. Holland , F. E. Marshall , K. E. McGowan , J. A. Nousek

A Statistical Comparison of the Optical/UV and X-ray Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts using the Swift Ultra-violet Optical and X-ray Telescopes

We present the systematic analysis of the UVOT and XRT light curves for a sample of 26 Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). By comparing the optical/UV and X-ray light curves, we found that they are remarkably different during the first 500s…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 S. R. Oates , M. J. Page , P. Schady , M. De Pasquale , P. A. Evans , K. L. Page , M. M. Chester , P. A. Curran , T. S. Koch , N. P. M. Kuin , P. W. A. Roming , M. H. Siegel , S. Zane , J. A. Nousek

Five new hot-Jupiter transits investigated with Swift-UVOT

Short wavelength exoplanet transit measurements have been used to probe mass-loss in exoplanet atmospheres. We present the Swift-UVOT transit light curves for five hot Jupiters orbiting UV-bright F-type stars: XO-3, KELT-3, WASP-3, WASP-62,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Lia Corrales , Sasikrishna Ravi , George W. King , Erin May , Emily Rauscher , Mark Reynolds