Welcome to Swift Gamma-ray Data Tools Documentation!¶
The Swift Gamma-ray Data Tools (GDT) is a toolkit for Swift-BAT data built on the GDT Core Package and is the next iteration of the Swift BAT Data Tools.
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was launched on November 20, 2004 and contains three intruments: the Burst Area Telescope (BAT), the X-ray Telescope (XRT) observing and the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT). Currently the toolkit services all Swift BAT public data with a focus on the pipeline data products for Gamma-ray Bursts.
Citing
If you use the Swift Gamma-ray Data Tools in your research and publications, we would definitely appreciate an appropriate acknowledgment and citation! We suggest the following BibTex entries:
@misc{GDT-Swift,
author = {Corinne Fletcher},
title = {Swift Gamma-ray Data Tools: v1.0.0},
year = 2024,
url = {https://github.com/USRA-STI/gdt-swift}
}
@misc{GDT-CORE,
author = {Adam Goldstein and William H. Cleveland and Daniel Kocevski},
title = {Gamma-ray Data Tools Core: v2.0.1},
year = 2024,
url = {https://github.com/USRA-STI/gdt-core}
}
Additional Resources
The Swift Science Support Center is a fantastic resource for all things Swift found here. For questions, bug reports, and comments, please visit the Swift Help Desk.
Acknowledgments
The creation of the Swift Gamma-ray Data Tools were funded by the NASA’s Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADAP) via grant number 80NSSC21K0651.