The Swift Satellite

The Swift Satellite celebrated its 10 year anniversary since launch on 20th November 2014.

The Astrophysics group are involved in the instrumentation, operations and science for Swift and in particular the Ultraviolet and Optical Telescope on  board. For information on the instrumentation and projects please go to the Swift and UVOT pages.

UVOT being built at MSSL and integrated at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC):

UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalogue

Data from the UVOT have been used to create a new catalogue of Optical and UV sources. For a description and a download of Version 1 please go to UVOTSSC. 

GRISMS

The Swift UVOT grisms have been calibrated and there is now revised software available to help you use your grism data. 

• The Swift UVOT grism documentation. 
• GITHUB software repository for grism software.

Swift UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalogue (UVOTSSC):

• Introduction to UVOTSSC
• Data Processing
• Data Selection
• Catalogue Properties
• Known Issues
• UVOTSSC Format

Key Links:

• Catalogue format
• Catalogue Download
• Yershov et al. (2014) and Page et al. (2014) describing  the catalogue
• UVOTSSC at CDS

Associated PDFs:

Tweets by NASASwift

Software Provided:

• UVOT
• Languages: Ada, assembler 
• CPUs: MA31750a