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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• ROMING, Peter W. A
• KENNEDY, Thomas E
• HUNSBERGER, S. D
• KAWAKAMI, Hajime
• KILLOUGH, Ronnie
• KOCH, T. Scott
• MCLELLAND, Michael K
• SMITH, Kelly
• SMITH, Philip J
• SOTO, Juan Carlos
• BOYD, Patricia T
• BREEVELD, Alice A
• MASON, Keith O
• HOLLAND, Stephen T
• IVANUSHKINA, Mariya
• PRYZBY, Michael S
• STILL, Martin D
• STOCK, Joseph
• NOUSEK, John A
• AHR, Lindy
• BINGHAM, Richard E
• BROOS, Patrick S
• CARTER, Mary J
• HANCOCK, Barry K
• HUCKLE, Howard E

Titel

The swift ultra-violet/optical telescope

Ist Teil von

• Space science reviews, 2005-10, Vol.120 (3-4), p.95-142

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) is one of three instruments flying aboard the Swift Gamma-ray Observatory. It is designed to capture the early (1 min) UV and optical photons from the afterglow of gamma-ray bursts in the 170-600 nm band as well as long term observations of these afterglows. This is accomplished through the use of UV and optical broadband filters and grisms. The UVOT has a modified Ritchey-Chrétien design with micro-channel plate intensified charged-coupled device detectors that record the arrival time of individual photons and provide sub-arcsecond positioning of sources. We discuss some of the science to be pursued by the UVOT and the overall design of the instrument.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]