Mission Overview

Map of Observations

mission wavelength

Wavelength Coverage

Wavelength Coverage Plot. Roughly 2000-8000 Angstroms

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is a first-of-its-kind multi-wavelength observatory dedicated to the study of gamma-ray burst (GRB) science. Its three instruments work together to observe GRBs and afterglows in the gamma-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical wavebands. MAST serves as a secondary archive for the Ultraviolet Optical Telescope (UVOT).

Active From

November 20, 2004 - Present

Resolution 

0.502 arcsec/pixel        

λ/Δλ ~ 200 (grisms @400 nm)

Capabilities

Documentation

Featured Document Image

October 1,  2005

UVOT Summary Paper

Summary paper by Roming et al. (2005) for Swift UVOT instrument.

2 MB

March 1,  2008

UVOT Software Guide
4 MB
UVOT Digest
UVOT Analysis Threads

October 2005

The Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope

January 2008

Photometric calibration of the Swift ultraviolet/optical telescope

August 2010

Further calibration of the Swift ultraviolet/optical telescope

August 2011

An Updated Ultraviolet Calibration for the Swift/UVOT

Search Tools

MAST Portal

Search multiple missions using target names or coordinates.

MAST API

Tools for programmatically querying the MAST Portal

UVOT Observation Search

UVOT Observation web forms

UVOT Exposure Search

UVOT Exposure web forms

Featured Data Products

Ultraviolet & Optical Imaging
Ultraviolet & Optical Imaging
Launch UVOT Observation Search
Grism Spectra
Grism Spectra
Search MAST Portal
UVOTSSC
UVOTSSC
UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalog (UVOTSSC) - a MAST High-Level Science Product
UVOTSSC HLSP Page
SOUSA
SOUSA
Swift's Optical/Ultraviolet Supernova Archive (SOUSA) - a MAST High-Level Science Product
SOUSA HLSP Page
UVOTGRB
UVOTGRB
A Large Catalog of UV/Optical GRB Afterglows (UVOTGRB) - a MAST High-Level Science Product
UVOTGRB HLSP Page

SwiftUVOT Images

NGC 1566

UV Mosaic of Large Magellanic Cloud

SwiftUVOT mosaic of the Large Magellanic Cloud.  See the NASA Press Release for more information.

NGC 300

Omega Centauri

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Supplemental Links

Link to
Swift Observatory mission page at NASA GSFC
Link to
Swift Mission Operations Center at PSU
Link to
Swift UVOT Page at MSSL, Cambridge, UK
Link to
ASI Swift Scientific Page
Link to
UK Swift Science Data Centre
Link to
The Swift Ultraviolet Optical Telescope
Link to
NASA's Swift Gallery
Link to
Swift Press Release and Other Images
Link to
The Gamma-ray Coordinates Network

Credits

MAST made extensive use of the Swift web sites at HEASARC, Penn State, ASI Science Data Center in Italy, and the University of Leicester in England. All the catalog information and data sets available from MAST were provided by the HEASARC Guest Observer Facility.