- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/339
- Title:
- Swift/UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalog
- Short Name:
- II/339
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The first version of the Swift UVOT serendipitous source catalogue (UVOTSSC) provides positions and magnitudes, as well as errors and upper limits of confirmed sources for observations taken from start of operations in 2005 until October 1st of 2010. The first version of the Swift UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalogue (UVOTSSC) has been produced by processing the image data obtained from the Swift Ultraviolet and Optical Telescope (UVOT) from the beginning of the mission (2005) until 1st of October of 2010. The data processing was performed at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL, University College London, U.K.) using Swift FTOOLS from NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Software (HEASoft-6.11), with some customising of the UVOT packages in order to get more complete source detection and properly apply quality flags to those sources that were detected within the UVOT image artefacts. The total number of observations with 17'x17' images used for version 1 of the catalogue is 23,059, giving 6,200,016 sources in total, of which 2,027,265 have multiple entries in the source table because they have been detected in more than one observation. Some sources were only observed in one filter. The total number of entries in the source table is 13,860,568. The S/N ratio for all sources exceeds 5 for at least one UVOT filter, the rest of the filters having a S/N greater than 3.
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/swuvotssc
- Title:
- Swift/UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalog, v1.1
- Short Name:
- SWUVOTSSC
- Date:
- 09 May 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The first version of the Swift UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalog (UVOTSSC) provides positions and magnitudes, as well as errors and upper limits of confirmed sources, for observations taken from the start of operations in 2005 until October 1st of 2010. The first version of the UVOTSSC has been produced by processing the image data obtained from the Swift Ultraviolet and Optical Telescope (UVOT). The data processing was performed at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL, University College London, U.K.) using Swift FTOOLS from NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Software package (HEASoft-6.11), with some customizing of the UVOT packages in order to get more complete source detection and to properly apply quality flags to those sources that were detected within the UVOT image artifacts. The total number of observations with 17'x17' images used for version 1 of the catalog is 23,059, giving 6,200,016 sources in total, of which 2,027,265 have multiple entries in the source table because they have been detected in more than one observation. Some sources were only observed in one filter. The total number of entries in the source table is 13,860,568. The S/N ratio for all sources exceeds 5 in at least one UVOT filter, the rest of the filters having a S/N greater than 3. U, B, V, UVW2, UVM2 and UVW1 refer to the filter bandpasses defined in the UVOT Filterwheel section of the MSSL documentation at <a href="http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_astro/uvot/uvot_instrument/filterwheel/filterwheel.html">http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_astro/uvot/uvot_instrument/filterwheel/filterwheel.html</a>. The initially released version of the catalog (2015) was done with the source identifier "SWIFTUVOT" for each source, and was made available in that form. The decision was subsequently made to rename the catalog sources by including the catalog version number. In addition, in a few instances multiple source IDs shared the same name (IAUNAME). They will be distinguished by having a letter a,b,c,.. appended to their name. Sources brighter than 0.96 counts per frame have not been included because their coincidence loss is too large to correct for. This HEASARC table contains version 1.1 of the Swift UVOT source table and contains 13,860,568 entries for the individual detections of 6,200,016 sources. The HEASARC has changed the names of many of the parameters from those given in the original table. In such cases, we have listed the original names in parentheses at the end of the parameter descriptions given below. There is a second related table which gives a summary of the observations from which the UVOTSSC sources listed in this table have been detected and measured, which is available at the HEASARC as the SWUVOTSSOB table. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2017 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/II/339">CDS Catalog II/339</a> file uvotssc1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/swuvotssob
- Title:
- Swift/UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalog, v1.1: Observations IDs
- Short Name:
- SWUVOTSSOB
- Date:
- 09 May 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The first version of the Swift UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalog (UVOTSSC) provides positions and magnitudes, as well as errors and upper limits of confirmed sources, for observations taken from the start of operations in 2005 until October 1st of 2010. The first version of the UVOTSSC has been produced by processing the image data obtained from the Swift Ultraviolet and Optical Telescope (UVOT). The data processing was performed at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL, University College London, U.K.) using Swift FTOOLS from NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Software package (HEASoft-6.11), with some customizing of the UVOT packages in order to get more complete source detection and to properly apply quality flags to those sources that were detected within the UVOT image artifacts. The total number of observations with 17'x17' images used for version 1 of the catalog is 23,059, giving 6,200,016 sources in total, of which 2,027,265 have multiple entries in the source table because they have been detected in more than one observation. Some sources were only observed in one filter. The total number of entries in the source table is 13,860,568. The S/N ratio for all sources exceeds 5 in at least one UVOT filter, the rest of the filters having a S/N greater than 3. One Swift ObsID can consist of one or more images, which for this catalog have been summed, yielding the quoted total exposure times. The original UVOT images can be found in the on-line archives at MAST, and in the Swift archives at <a href="http://swift.ac.uk/">http://swift.ac.uk/</a> and at the HEASARC (<a href="http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/swiftmastr.html">http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/swiftmastr.html</a>), using the ObsID as the search key. For higher temporal resolution, the original images need to be used because the catalog data herein are summed over all of the individual images within an ObsID. The upper limits per filter for the summed images are constructed for each ObsID because the sensitivity hardly varies over the detector. Usually the images within one ObsID share the same pointing, however, whereas the quoted upper limits always apply for sources near the pointing direction given, if the images had small offsets in pointing they may not apply to sources near the edge of the summed image, which is typically about 8 arcminutes from the quoted pointing direction. U, B, V, UVW2, UVM2 and UVW1 refer to the filter bandpasses defined in the UVOT Filterwheel section of the MSSL documentation at <a href="http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_astro/uvot/uvot_instrument/filterwheel/filterwheel.html">http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_astro/uvot/uvot_instrument/filterwheel/filterwheel.html</a>. This HEASARC table contains version 1.1 of the Swift UVOT table of observations in which the sources in the source table were detected and contains the details of 23,059 Swift UVOT observations. The HEASARC has changed the names of many of the parameters from those given in the original table. In such cases, we have listed the original names in parentheses at the end of the parameter descriptions given below. There is a related table which lists the 13,860,568 source detections that is available at the HEASARC as the SWUVOTSSC table. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2017 based upon the <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/II/339">CDS Catalog II/339</a> file summary.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/424/1636
- Title:
- Swift/UVOT sources in NGC4321 (M100)
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/424/1636
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We study the star-forming regions in the spiral galaxy NGC 4321 (M100). We take advantage of the spatial resolution (2.5-arcsec full width at half-maximum) of the Swift/Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope camera and the availability of three ultraviolet (UV) passbands in the region 1600<{lambda}<3000{AA}, in combination with optical and infrared (IR) imaging from Sloan Digital Sky Survey, KPNO/H{alpha} and Spitzer/IRAC, to obtain a catalogue of 787 star-forming regions out to three disc scalelengths. We use a large volume of star formation histories, combined with stellar population synthesis, to determine the properties of the young stellar component and its relationship with the spiral arms.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/35
- Title:
- Swift UVOT Stars Survey. III. Galactic open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/35
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- As part of the Swift/Ultraviolet-Optical Telescope Stars Survey, we present near-ultraviolet (NUV; 3000-1700 {AA}) point-source photometry for 103 Galactic open clusters. These data, taken over the span of the mission, provide a unique and unprecedented set of NUV point-source photometry on simple stellar populations. After applying a membership analysis fueled mostly by Gaia DR2 (Cat. I/345) proper motions, we find that 49 of these 103 have clear precise color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) amenable to investigation. We compare the CMDs to theoretical isochrones and find good agreement between the theoretical isochrones and the CMDs. The exceptions are the fainter parts of the main sequence and the red giant branch in the uvw2-uvw1 CMDs, which is most likely due to either the difficulty of correcting for the red leak in the uvw2 filter or limitations in our understanding of UV opacities for cool stars. For the most part, our derived cluster parameters - age, distance, and reddening - agree with the consensus literature, but we find a few clusters that warrant substantial revision from literature values, notably NGC 2304, NGC 2343, NGC 2360, NGC 2396, NGC 2428, NGC 2509, NGC 2533, NGC 2571, NGC 2818, Collinder 220, and NGC 6939. A number of these are clusters in the third Galactic quadrant, where previous studies may have mistaken the disk sequence for the cluster. However, the Gaia DR2 proper motions clearly favor a different sequence. A number of clusters also show white dwarf and blue straggler sequences. We confirm the presence of extended main-sequence turnoffs in NGC 2360 and NGC 2818 and show hints of them in a number of other clusters that may warrant future spectroscopic study. Most of the clusters in the study have low extinction, and the rest are well fit by a "Milky Way-like" extinction law. However, Collinder 220 hints at a possible "LMC-like" extinction law. We finally provide a comprehensive point-source catalog to the community as a tool for future investigation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/150/129
- Title:
- Swift UVOT stars survey. II. RR Lyrae in M3 and M15
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/150/129
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first results of a Near-UltraViolet (NUV) survey of RR Lyrae stars from the Ultraviolet Optical Telescope (UVOT) on board the Swift Gamma-ray Burst Mission. It is well-established that RR Lyrae stars have large amplitudes in the far- and near-ultraviolet. We have used UVOT's unique wide-field NUV imaging capability to perform the first systematic NUV survey of variable stars in the Galactic globular clusters M3 and M15. We identify 280 variable stars, comprised of 275 RR Lyrae, 2 anomalous Cepheids, 1 classical Cepheid, 1 SX Phoenicis star, and 1 possible long-period or irregular variable. Only two of these are new discoveries. We compare our results to previous investigations and find excellent agreement in the periods with significantly larger amplitudes in the NUV. We map out, for the first time, an NUV Bailey diagram from globular clusters, showing the usual loci for fundamental mode RRab and first overtone RRc pulsators. We show the unique sensitivity of NUV photometry to both the temperatures and the surface gravities of RR Lyrae stars. Finally, we show evidence of an NUV period-metallicity-luminosity relationship. Future investigations will further examine the dependence of NUV pulsation parameters on metallicity and Oosterhoff classification.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/866/97
- Title:
- Swift X-ray flash & rich gamma-ray bursts in BAT3
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/866/97
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We build a comprehensive sample to statistically describe the properties of X-ray flashes (XRFs) and X-ray riches (XRRs) from the third Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT3) catalog of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We obtain 81 XRFs, 540 XRRs, and 394 classical GRBs (C-GRBs). We statistically explore the different properties of the {gamma}-ray prompt emission, the X-ray emission, the X-ray light-curve type, the association with supernovae (SNe), and the host galaxy properties for these sources. We confirm that most XRFs/XRRs are long GRBs with low values of peak energy E_peak_^obs^ and they are low-luminosity GRBs. XRFs, XRRs, and C-GRBs follow the same E_X,iso_-E_{gamma},iso_-E_peak,z_ correlations. Compared to the classical GRBs, XRFs are favorable to have the association with SN explosions. We do not find any significant differences of redshift distribution and host galaxy properties among XRFs, XRRs, and C-GRBs. We also discuss some observational biases and selection effects that may affect our statistical results. The GRB detectors with wide energy range and low energy threshold are expected for the XRF/XRR research in the future.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/197/31
- Title:
- Swift X-ray observations of classical novae. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/197/31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Swift gamma-ray burst satellite is an excellent facility for studying novae. Its rapid response time and sensitive X-ray detector provides an unparalleled opportunity to investigate the previously poorly sampled evolution of novae in the X-ray regime. This paper presents Swift observations of 52 Galactic/Magellanic Cloud novae. We included the X-Ray Telescope (0.3-10keV) instrument count rates and the UltraViolet and Optical Telescope (1700-8000{AA}) filter photometry. Also included in the analysis are the publicly available pointed observations of 10 additional novae the X-ray archives. This is the largest X-ray sample of Galactic/Magellanic Cloud novae yet assembled and consists of 26 novae with Super Soft X-ray emission, 19 from Swift observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/208/25
- Title:
- Swift X-ray observations of 1FGL sources
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/208/25
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have analyzed all the archival X-ray data of 134 unidentified (unID) gamma-ray sources listed in the first Fermi/LAT (1FGL) catalog and subsequently followed up by the Swift/XRT. We constructed the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from radio to gamma-rays for each X-ray source detected, and tried to pick up unique objects that display anomalous spectral signatures. In these analyses, we target all the 1FGL unID sources, using updated data from the second Fermi/LAT (2FGL) catalog on the Large Area Telescope (LAT) position and spectra. We found several potentially interesting objects, particularly three sources, 1FGL J0022.2-1850, 1FGL J0038.0+1236, and 1FGL J0157.0-5259, which were then more deeply observed with Suzaku as a part of an AO-7 program in 2012. We successfully detected an X-ray counterpart for each source whose X-ray spectra were well fitted by a single power-law function. The positional coincidence with a bright radio counterpart (currently identified as an active galactic nucleus, AGN) in the 2FGL error circles suggests these sources are definitely the X-ray emission from the same AGN, but their SEDs show a wide variety of behavior. In particular, the SED of 1FGL J0038.0+1236 is not easily explained by conventional emission models of blazars. The source 1FGL J0022.2-1850 may be in a transition state between a low-frequency peaked and a high-frequency peaked BL Lac object, and 1FGL J0157.0-5259 could be a rare kind of extreme blazar.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/547/A57
- Title:
- Swift X-ray Telescope Cluster Survey
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/547/A57
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new sample of X-ray selected galaxy groups and clusters serendipitously observed with Swift and the X-ray Telescope (XRT). We searched the XRT archive for extended sources among 336 GRB fields with galactic latitude |b|>20{deg}. Our selection algorithm yields a flux-limited sample of 72 X-ray groups and clusters with a well defined selection function and negligible contamination. The sky coverage of the survey goes from the total 40deg^2^ to 1deg^2^ at a flux limit of 10^-14^erg/s/cm^-2 (0.5-2keV). All the X-ray sources are detected in the Swift-XRT soft (0.5-2keV) band.
