Swift Mission and X-ray Transients

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Feb 2010

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American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #22.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.693

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The Swift observatory was designed to follow up Gamma-Ray Bursts, but has also proven to be a powerful observatory for multiwavelength observations of transient events. The BAT instrument monitors over 700 galactic and extragalactic objects on a daily basis, and sometimes triggers on flares from transients, resulting in rapid followup by the on-board X-ray and optical telescopes. The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) has undertaken campaigns of monitoring the Galactic Center, several Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXT), and other sources. I will discuss highlights from the first five years of the Swift mission in the field of X-ray transients, with particular attention to the exciting results of our studies of SFXTs.

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