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astro-ph.HE2020★ 9 cited

Swift Multiwavelength Follow-up of LVC S200224ca and the Implications for Binary Black Hole Mergers

N. J. Klingler, A. Lien, S. R. Oates +41

On 2020 February 24, during their third observing run ("O3"), the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory and Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected S200224ca: a candidate…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 41 cited

Swift-XRT follow-up of gravitational wave triggers during the third aLIGO/Virgo observing run

K. L. Page, P. A. Evans, A. Tohuvavohu +41

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory followed up 18 gravitational wave (GW) triggers from the LIGO/Virgo collaboration during the O3 observing run in 2019/2020, performing approximat…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 33 cited

NICER Observation of the Temporal and Spectral Evolution of Swift J1818.0-1607: a Missing Link between Magnetars and Rotation Powered Pulsars

Chin-Ping Hu, Beste Begicarslan, Tolga Guver +13

We report on the hard X-ray burst and the first ~100 days NICER monitoring of the soft X-ray temporal and spectral evolution of the newly-discovered magnetar Swift J1818.0-1607. Th…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 50 cited

Gamma-ray Urgent Archiver for Novel Opportunities (GUANO): Swift/BAT event data dumps on demand to enable sensitive sub-threshold GRB searches

Aaron Tohuvavohu, Jamie A. Kennea, James DeLaunay +3

We introduce a new capability of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, to provide event data from the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on demand in response to transients detected by othe…