1. In-flight calibration of the Swift XRT effective area.
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Cusumano, G., Campana, S., Romano, P., Mangano, V., Moretti, A., Abbey, A. F., Angelini, L., Beardmore, A. P., Burrows, D. N., Capalbi, M., Chincarini, G., Citterio, O., Giommi, P., Goad, M. R., Godet, O., Hartner, G. D., Hill, J. E., Kennea, J. A., La Parola, V., and Mineo, T.
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X-ray telescopes , *X-rays , *SPECTRUM analysis , *X-ray astronomy , *ASTRONOMY , *PHYSICS - Abstract
The Swift X-ray Telescope is designed to make astrometric, spectroscopic and photometric observations of the X-ray emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts and their afterglows in the 0.2–10 keV energy band. Here we report some results on the in-flight calibration of the Swift XRT effective area obtained analyzing observations of cosmic sources with different the analysis of cosmic sources intrinsic spectra and using the on-ground calibration and ray-tracing simulations as a starting point Our analysis includes the study of the effective area for different XRT operating modes. © 2006 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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