Extract cleaned Swift/UVOT UV grism spectra with uvotpy package
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| author | Zhou, Hao Covino, Stefano Jin, Zhi-Ping Fan, Yi-Zhong Wei, Da-Ming Kuin, N. Paul |
| author_facet | Zhou, Hao Covino, Stefano Jin, Zhi-Ping Fan, Yi-Zhong Wei, Da-Ming Kuin, N. Paul |
| contents | The ultraviolet/optical telescope (UVOT) onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is capable of imaging with 7 lenticular filters and of taking slitless spectra with 2 grisms. Both image and grism data have been widely used to study gamma-ray bursts, supernovae and other ultraviolet/optical transients, and proved UVOT is a powerful instrument in time-domain astronomy. However, the second order contamination, for blue sources, strongly limits the red end of ultraviolet (UV) grism spectra. This, in turn, reduces the valid wavelength range to only about 33% of the total. However, to explore the broadband spectral energy distribution of GRBs at the early stage, a larger valid wavelength range is required. Hence based on the uvotpy package, we propose a method to remove the second order contamination from UV grism spectra (nominal mode) up to about 4000Å, i.e., about 70% of the full wavelength range. The 1-sigma systematic uncertainty of this method is about 11.2%. In addition, if a source is red enough, the red end of the valid range could reach about 5000Å. The source code is available on GitHub. |
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| spellingShingle | Extract cleaned Swift/UVOT UV grism spectra with uvotpy package Zhou, Hao Covino, Stefano Jin, Zhi-Ping Fan, Yi-Zhong Wei, Da-Ming Kuin, N. Paul Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena The ultraviolet/optical telescope (UVOT) onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is capable of imaging with 7 lenticular filters and of taking slitless spectra with 2 grisms. Both image and grism data have been widely used to study gamma-ray bursts, supernovae and other ultraviolet/optical transients, and proved UVOT is a powerful instrument in time-domain astronomy. However, the second order contamination, for blue sources, strongly limits the red end of ultraviolet (UV) grism spectra. This, in turn, reduces the valid wavelength range to only about 33% of the total. However, to explore the broadband spectral energy distribution of GRBs at the early stage, a larger valid wavelength range is required. Hence based on the uvotpy package, we propose a method to remove the second order contamination from UV grism spectra (nominal mode) up to about 4000Å, i.e., about 70% of the full wavelength range. The 1-sigma systematic uncertainty of this method is about 11.2%. In addition, if a source is red enough, the red end of the valid range could reach about 5000Å. The source code is available on GitHub. |
| title | Extract cleaned Swift/UVOT UV grism spectra with uvotpy package |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10241 |