A two-year monitoring campaign of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients with Swift

P. Romano; V. La Parola; G. Cusumano; S. Vercellone; P. Esposito; J. A. Kennea; D. N. Burrows; H. A. Krimm; C. Pagani; N. Gehrels

A two-year monitoring campaign of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients with Swift

P. Romano, V. La Parola, G. Cusumano, S. Vercellone, P. Esposito, J. A. Kennea, D. N. Burrows, H. A. Krimm, C. Pagani, N. Gehrels

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Swift is the only observatory which, due to its unique fast-slewing capability and broad-band energy coverage, can detect outbursts from Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs) from the very beginning and study their evolution panchromatically. Thanks to its flexible observing scheduling, which makes monitoring cost-effective, Swift has also performed a campaign that covers all phases of the lives of SFXTs with a high sensitivity in the soft X-ray regime, where most SFXTs had not been observed before. Our continued effort at monitorning SFXTs with 2-3 observations per week (1-2 ks) with the Swift X-Ray Telescope (XRT) over their entire visibility period has just finished its second year. We report on our findings on the long-term properties of SFXTs, their duty cycle, and the new outbursts caught by Swift during the second year.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Proceedings of Science
State	Published - 2010
Event	8th INTEGRAL Workshop on the Restless Gamma-Ray Universe, INTEGRAL 2010 - Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland Duration: Sep 27 2010 → Sep 30 2010

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A two-year monitoring campaign of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients with Swift

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