Published September 28, 2004 | Version v1
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Swift Burst Alert Telescope Hard X-Ray Monitor and Survey

Creators

  • 1. Universities Space Research Assoc., 7501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 206, Seabrook, MD 20706 (United States)
  • 2. Code 661, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 (United States)
  • 3. Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via E. Bianchi 46, 23-807 Merate, LC (Italy)
  • 4. University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom SO17 1BJ (United Kingdom)
  • 5. Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 84545 (United States)
  • 6. Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 (United States)

Description

The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on the Swift gamma ray burst mission will perform the first new all sky hard X-ray survey since 1977. Swift will perform pointings covering >64% of the sky each day and achieve an integrated systematics limited sensitivity in three years of 0.6 milliCrabs for sources well off the galactic plane. This survey is expected to identify hundreds of new highly obscured AGN. BAT will also serve as a sensitive rapid response X-ray outburst and transient monitor

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1063/1.1810928;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
727
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 655-658
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
30 years of discovery
Acronym
Symposium on gamma-ray bursts
Dates
8-12 Sep 2003
Place
Santa Fe, NM (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36073036
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS; COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES; COSMIC RAY DETECTION; COSMIC X-RAY BURSTS; GAMMA DETECTION; HARD X RADIATION; MONITORS; SENSITIVITY; TELESCOPE COUNTERS; TRANSIENTS
Descriptors DEC
COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; COSMIC X-RAY SOURCES; DETECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; X RADIATION

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Notes
(c) 2004 American Institute of Physics