Readout modes and automated operation of the Swift X-ray Telescope

By J. Hill, D. Burrows, J. Nousek, A. Abbey, R. Ambrosi, H. Bräuninger, W. Burkert, S. Campana, C. Cheruvu, G. Cusumano and 12 more. SPIE Optics + Photonics, 2003

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• THE SIMULTANEOUS OPTICAL-TO-X-RAY SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION OF SOFT X-RAY SELECTED ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI OBSERVED BY SWIFT (2010, methodology): “For all observations6 the XRT was operating in photon counting mode (Hill et al. 2004) and the data were reduced by the task xrtpipeline version 0.11.6., which is included in the HEASOFT package 6.4.”
• An online repository of Swift/XRT light curves of Γ-ray bursts (2007, background): “One of the XRT’s innovative features is that it changes readout mode automatically depending on the source intensity (Hill et al. 2004).”
• THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN: X-RAYS DRIVE THE UV THROUGH NIR VARIABILITY IN THE 2013 ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS OUTBURST IN NGC 2617 (2013, methodology): “Swift XRT Observations The XRT was usually operating in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (Hill et al. 2004) but it was in photon counting (PC) mode for some observations at the beginning and middle of the monitoring campaign.”
• Unveiling the origin of X-ray flares in gamma-ray bursts (2010, methodology): “…et al. 2005a) is designed to acquire data using different observing modes depending on source count rates to minimize the presence of pile-up (Hill et al. 2004): the first orbit contains Windowed Timing (WT) data if the source is brighter than a few counts s−1, while for lower count rates…”
• The Early X-Ray Emission from GRBs (2006, methodology): “The XRT observations incorporate data taken using the various operating modes of the instrument (see Hill et al. 2004) and were corrected for pile-up where appropriate using the method described in Nousek et al. (2006).”