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Questions about Swift? Try our guide to Swift or the guide to data processing and analysis. If these don't solve your problem, please feel free to e-mail us at swifthelp@le.ac.uk.

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We are located in the Department of Physics & Astronomy , at the University of Leicester (directions).

XRT Data Analysis

Ready-made products

XRT analysis threads

General introduction
- Obtaining and setting up the Swift software
- Files and directory structure
General processing
- Producing cleaned XRT event-files
- Source detection and position determination
Analysis
- General introduction to XSELECT
- Exposure Maps

Calibration information

Information about XRT's operating modes
IACHEC Cross-calibration of Chandra, NuSTAR, Swift, Suzaku, XMM-Newton with 3C 273 and PKS 2155-304 Madsen et al., 2017, AJ, 153, 2
SNR 1E 0102.2-7219 as an X-ray Calibration Standard in the 0.5-1.0 keV Bandpass and Its Application to the CCD Instruments aboard Chandra, Suzaku, Swift and XMM-Newton Plucinsky et al., 2017, A&A, 597, A35
Cross-calibration of the X-ray instruments onboard the Chandra, Suzaku, Swift, and XMM-Newton Observatories using the SNR 1E 0102.2-7219 Plucinsky et al., 2012, SPIE, 8443
The SMC SNR 1E0102.2-7219 as a Calibration Standard for X-ray Astronomy in the 0.3-2.5 keV Bandpass Plucinsky et al., 2008, SPIE, 7011
Modelling the spectral response of the Swift-XRT CCD camera: Experience learnt from in-flight calibration Godet et al., 2009, A&A, 494, 775
Cross-calibration of the X-ray instruments onboard the Chandra, INTEGRAL, RXTE, Suzaku, Swift, and XMM-Newton observatories using G21.5-0.9 Tsujimoto et al., 2011, A&A, 525, 25
Recovering Swift-XRT energy resolution through CCD charge trap mapping Pagani et al., 2011, A&A, 534, A20
XRT SPIE papers
Table of past and present release notes for the RMFs and Gain files.

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