GCN VOEvent Streams From Swift-BAT (Burst Alert Telescope)

VOEvent alerts produced from transient detections resulting from observations with the NASA Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and the Burst Alert Telescope. Events should be reported within tens to of seconds to hours; expect about 3 events per week, where most events correspond to either gamma ray burst, or other transient.

Stream giving alerts and localizations for hard X-ray/gamma-ray transients beginning with a detection(SWIFT_BAT_GRB_ALERT), lightcurve ('SWIFT_BAT_GRB_LC') and processed light curve (SWIFT_BAT_GRB_LC_PROC), whether or not the position was acquired (SWIFT_BAT_GRB_POS_ACK) or not acquired (SWIFT_BAT_GRB_POS_NACK), and the scaled map image reconstruction (SWIFT_BAT_SCALEDMAP). Observatory alerts about automated decisions of whether or not to slew to the detected transient are also included (SWIFT_FOM_OBS).

A browser-based archive of the events recorded.

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/org.gavo.dc/std/gcn-swift-bat/swift
Related Identifier http://dc.g-vo.org/std/gcn-swift-bat/swift/info
Related Identifier https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/swift_grbs.html
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://org.gavo.dc/std/gcn-swift-bat/swift
Provenance
Creator The Swift Team
Instrument Swift Burst Alert Telescope BAT
Publisher GCN
Publication Year 2025
Rights public
OpenAccess true
Contact The Swift Team <support(at)gcn.nasa.gov>
Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; High Energy Astrophysics; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy
Temporal Coverage 2004-11-20T00:00:00Z 2035-01-01T00:00:00Z