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2023MNRAS.518..174E - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 518, 174-184 (2023/January-1)

A real-time transient detector and the living Swift-XRT point source catalogue.

EVANS P.A., PAGE K.L., BEARDMORE A.P., EYLES-FERRIS R.A.J., OSBORNE J.P., CAMPANA S., KENNEA J.A. and CENKO S.B.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the Living Swift-XRT Point Source (LSXPS) catalogue and real-time transient detector. This system allows us for the first time to carry out low-latency searches for new transient X-ray events fainter than those available to the current generation of wide-field imagers, and report their detection in near real time. Previously, such events could only be found in delayed searches, e.g. of archival data; our low-latency analysis now enables rapid and ongoing follow-up of these events, enabling the probing of time-scales previously inaccessible. The LSXPS is, uniquely among X-ray catalogues, updated in near real time, making this the first up-to-date record of the point sources detected by a sensitive X-ray telescope: the SwiftX-ray Telescope. The associated upper limit calculator likewise makes use of all available data allowing contemporary upper limits to be rapidly produced on demand. These facilities, which enable the low-latency transient system, are also fully available to the community, providing a powerful resource for time-domain and multimessenger astrophysics.

Abstract Copyright: © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): methods: data analysis - catalogues - X-rays: general

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/MNRAS/518/174): sources.dat sclean.dat suclean.dat datasets.dat dclean.dat duclean.dat detect.dat obsource.dat xcorr.dat oldstack.dat trans.dat>

Nomenclature: LSXPS JHHMMSS.s+DDMMSS N>300000.

Status at CDS : Tables of objects will be appraised for possible ingestion in SIMBAD.

Simbad objects: 4

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