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Swift: Opportunities, Capabilities and Data Handling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

Rhaana Starling
Rhaana Starling*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH, UK email: rlcs1@star.le.ac.uk
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Abstract

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A focus session was held for those wanting to familiarise themselves with the Swift satellite and to consider its exploitation for specific scientific goals. An overview was presented, with questions throughout. Proposal preparation and and the automated science products from the X-ray Telescope were discussed. This account summarises the information given in the presentation and in the answers to the questions which were raised.

Keywords

space vehicles: instrumentsmethods: data analysisX-rays: generalastronomical data bases: miscellaneous
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S285: New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , September 2011 , pp. 183 - 184
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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