Swiftbat: Utilities for handing BAT instrument data from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
Abstract
Swiftbat retrieves, analyzes, and displays data from NASA's Swift spacecraft, especially data from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT). All BAT data are available from the Swift data archive; however, a few routines in this library use data access methods not available to the general public and thus are useful only to Swift team members. The package also installs a command-line program 'swinfo' that provides Swift Information such as what the MET (onboard-clock) time is, where Swift was pointing, and whether a specific source was above the horizon and/or in the field of view.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- September 2023
- Bibcode:
- 2023ascl.soft09003P
- Keywords:
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- Software