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most citedThe Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on the Swift MIDEX Mission

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60 papers

astro-ph.HE2023

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

S. R. Oates, N. P. M. Kuin, M. Nicholl +57

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/O…

astro-ph.HE2023

BatAnalysis -- A Comprehensive Python Pipeline for Swift BAT Survey Analysis

Tyler Parsotan, Sibasish Laha, David M. Palmer +4

The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) is a coded aperture gamma-ray instrument with a large field of view that primarily operates in survey mode when it is not triggering on transi…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 20 cited

The 2022 high-energy outburst and radio disappearing act of the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408

Marcus E. Lower, George Younes, Paul Scholz +19

We report the radio and high-energy properties of a new outburst from the radio-loud magnetar 1E 1547.05408. Following the detection of a short burst from the source with Swift-…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 112 cited

GRB 221009A: Discovery of an Exceptionally Rare Nearby and Energetic Gamma-Ray Burst

Maia A. Williams, Jamie A. Kennea, S. Dichiara +53

We report the discovery of the unusually bright long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB), GRB 221009A, as observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift), Monitor of All-sky X-ra…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 8 cited

The 100-month Swift catalogue of supergiant fast X-ray transients II. SFXT diagnostics from outburst properties

Romano P., Evans P. A., Bozzo E. +9

Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXT) are High Mass X-ray Binaries displaying X-ray outbursts reaching peak luminosities of 10 erg/s and spend most of their life in more q…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 7 cited

The Second Catalog of Interplanetary Network Localizations of Konus Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

D. Svinkin, K. Hurley, A. Ridnaia +72

We present the catalog of Interplanetary Network (IPN) localizations for 199 short-duration gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) detected by the Konus-Wind (KW) experiment between 2011 January…