Initial Results from Swift/uvot
Abstract
The UltraViolet/Optical Telescope on Swift is a 30-cm Richey-Cretien reflector that provides sub-arcsecond positions, light curves on time scales from minutes to days after a GRB, and spectra covering 160 - 700 nm. UVOT is detecting optical afterglows from ~67% of rapidly observed long GRBs that have little extinction in the Milky Way. We consider possible reasons for the non-detections. UVOT is also producing remarkable results on the evolution of GRB afterglows including GRB060218/SN2006aj as well as the evolution of young supernovae.
- Publication:
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The Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories
- Pub Date:
- September 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789812834300_0315
- Bibcode:
- 2008mgm..conf.2030M