Swift Burst Alert Telescope Hard X-Ray Monitor and Survey

Journal Article · Tue Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2004 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1810928· OSTI ID:20630205

Krimm, Hans A ^[1]; Banat, Piotr; Belloni, Tomaso ^[2]; Barthelmy, Scott D; Cummings, Jay R; Gehrels, Neil; Parsons, Ann M; Tueller, Jack ^[1]; Dean, Anthony; Willis, David ^[3]; Fenimore, Edward E; Palmer, David M ^[4]; Markwardt, Craig B ^[1]

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1. Code 661, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 (United States)
2. Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via E. Bianchi 46, 23-807 Merate, LC (Italy)
3. University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom SO17 1BJ (United Kingdom)
4. Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 84545 (United States)

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.

• OSTI ID: 20630205
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 727, Issue 1; Conference: Symposium on gamma-ray bursts: 30 years of discovery, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 8-12 Sep 2003; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1810928; (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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