The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

Lorella Angelini; S. Bradley Cenko; Jamie A. Kennea; Michael H. Siegel; Scott D. Barthelmy

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-6960-7_155

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

Lorella Angelini, S. Bradley Cenko, Jamie A. Kennea, Michael H. Siegel, Scott D. Barthelmy

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The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift) is a NASA medium explorer mission launched in 2004. Swift was designed with two primary scientific objectives: (1) to precisely localize gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and promptly relay their positions to other observatories; and (2) to characterize the GRB afterglow phase at X-ray and UV/optical wavelengths. To achieve these objectives, Swift carries three instruments onboard: a wide-field, hard X-ray Burst Alert Telescope (BAT), a focusing soft X-Ray Telescope (XRT), and a 30 cm UV-Optical Telescope (UVOT). Swift is a first-of-its-kind autonomous rapid-slewing satellite for transient astronomy, pioneering the way for future time-domain and multi-messenger missions. This chapter describes the three instruments on-board Swift, the ground system that enables prompt dissemination of all data products to the community and provides a brief summary of science highlights to date.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	1423-1454
Number of pages	32
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811969607
ISBN (Print)	9789811969591
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6960-7_155
State	Published - Jan 1 2024

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