An Updated Ultraviolet Calibration for the Swift/UVOT

Details An Updated Ultraviolet Calibration for the Swift/UVOT An Updated Ultraviolet Calibration for the Swift/UVOT

2011-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/1102.4717v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Presented at GRB 2010 symposium, Annapolis, November 2010 to be published in American Institute

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We present an updated calibration of the Swift/UVOT broadband ultraviolet (uvw1, uvm2, and uvw2) filters. The new calibration accounts for the ~1% per year decline in the UVOT sensitivity observed in all filters, and makes use of additional calibration sources with a wider range of colours and with HST spectrophotometry. In this paper we present the new effective area curves and instrumental photometric zeropoints and compare with the previous calibration.

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