Swift/BAT and MAXI/GSC broadband transient monitor

We present a newly developed broadband transient monitor using the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and the MAXI Gas Slit Camera (GSC) data. Our broadband transient monitor keeps vigil for high-energy transient sources from 2 keV to 200 keV in seven energy bands by combining the BAT (15–200 keV) an...

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Veröffentlicht in:Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 2016-06, Vol.68 (SP1)
Hauptverfasser: Sakamoto, Takanori, Oda, Ryoma, Mihara, Tatehiro, Yoshida, Atsumasa, Arimoto, Makoto, Barthelmy, Scott D., Kawai, Nobuyuki, Krimm, Hans A., Nakahira, Satoshi, Serino, Motoko
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Zusammenfassung:We present a newly developed broadband transient monitor using the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and the MAXI Gas Slit Camera (GSC) data. Our broadband transient monitor keeps vigil for high-energy transient sources from 2 keV to 200 keV in seven energy bands by combining the BAT (15–200 keV) and the GSC (2–20 keV) data. Currently, daily and 90-minute (one orbit) averaged light curves are available for 106 high-energy transient sources. This transient monitor is available to the public through our web server, http://yoshidalab.mydns.jp/bat_gsc_trans_mon/, for wider use by the community. We discuss a daily sensitivity of our monitor and possible future improvements on our pipeline.
ISSN:0004-6264
0004-6264
2053-051X
DOI:10.1093/pasj/psv130