@article{3df3a4b64b7d460cb12d2b0434958bc9,
title = "The Swift ultra-violet/optical telescope",
abstract = "The Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) is one of three instruments flying aboard the Swift Gamma-ray Observatory. It is designed to capture the early (∼1 min) UV and optical photons from the afterglow of gamma-ray bursts in the 170-600 nm band as well as long term observations of these afterglows. This is accomplished through the use of UV and optical broadband filters and grisms. The UVOT has a modified Ritchey-Chr{\'e}tien design with micro-channel plate intensified charged-coupled device detectors that record the arrival time of individual photons and provide sub-arcsecond positioning of sources. We discuss some of the science to be pursued by the UVOT and the overall design of the instrument.",
author = "Roming, \{Peter W.A.\} and Kennedy, \{Thomas E.\} and Mason, \{Keith O.\} and Nousek, \{John A.\} and Lindy Ahr and Bingham, \{Richard E.\} and Broos, \{Patrick S.\} and Carter, \{Mary J.\} and Hancock, \{Barry K.\} and Huckle, \{Howard E.\} and Hunsberger, \{S. D.\} and Hajime Kawakami and Ronnie Killough and Koch, \{T. Scott\} and McLelland, \{Michael K.\} and Kelly Smith and Smith, \{Philip J.\} and Soto, \{Juan Carlos\} and Boyd, \{Patricia T.\} and Breeveld, \{Alice A.\} and Holland, \{Stephen T.\} and Mariya Ivanushkina and Pryzby, \{Michael S.\} and Still, \{Martin D.\} and Joseph Stock",
note = "Funding Information: The authors are very grateful to the large team of dedicated individuals from PSU, Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), SwRI, Swales Aerospace, and GSFC who, along with the authors, had a significant role in the designing, building, and testing of the UVOT. It is not feasible to list all of them, however we wish to specifically recognize, in alphabetical order, Pete Altimore, Dave Baran, Ray Boucarut, Louisa Bradley, Courtney Chadwick, Bill Chang, Marg Chester, Paul Connors, Diane Day, Sharissa Feasler, Lynn Gilbert, Mark Hailey, Dan Hein, Jeff Hocker, Ritva Keski-Kuha, Brian Kittle, Shane Lanzendorfer, Tim Madison, Al Mariano, Ian Phillips, Manuel Quijada, Alex Rousseau, Peter Sheather, Jared Shoemaker, Frank Thurlow, Graham Willis, and Tim Zukowski. We would like to extend a special vote of thanks to Renan Borelli for his assistance as the COTR for UVOT. We would also like to thank Mark Cropper and Leisa Townsley for their leadership during the Phase A portion of the Swift Project. This work is sponsored at PSU by NASA{\textquoteright}s Office of Space Science through grant NAG5-8401, and at MSSL by funding from PPARC.",
year = "2005",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1007/s11214-005-5095-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "120",
pages = "95--142",
journal = "Space Science Reviews",
issn = "0038-6308",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "3-4",
}