AAS 207th Meeting, 8-12 January 2006
Session 171 Supernovae
Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, January 12, 2006, Exhibit Hall

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[171.01] Swift Supernova Observations

P. J. Brown (Penn State), S. T. Holland (GSFC/USRA), P. W. A. Roming (Penn State), P. A. Milne (Steward Observatory), Swift Team

In addition to studying GRBs, Swift has also begun studying supernovae during its first year in orbit. The main focus has been to use Swift's Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope to produce light curves in six bands (spanning 2000-6000 Angstroms) as well as grism spectroscopy. In addition, Swift's X-Ray Telescope is observing the 0.5-10 keV range at the same time. We will present results of our 2005 observations as well as the characteristics desirable in SNe to be observed by Swift.


The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: pbrown@astro.psu.edu

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