Neil Gehrels–Swift Observatory’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope Observations of Small Bodies in the Solar System by Dennis Bodewits, Zexi Xing, Mohammad Saki, Jeffrey P. Morgenthaler

“…The <i>Neil–Gehrels Swift Observatory</i> has added extensively to our understanding of small bodies in our solar system through its capabilities to rapidly respond to short-live events such as outbursts and collisions, through its near-ultraviolet coverage, and by its ability to track time-dependent changes through monitoring campaigns. …”
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Ultraviolet and X-ray Light-Curves of Novae Observed by the <i>Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory</i> by Kim L. Page, N. Paul M. Kuin, Julian P. Osborne

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Swift/UVOT: 18 Years of Long GRB Discoveries and Advances by Sam Oates

“…The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (<i>Swift</i>) has been in operation for 18 years. …”
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Radio and X-ray detections of GX 339-4 in quiescence using MeerKAT and Swift by Tremou, E, Corbel, S, Fender, RP, Woudt, PA, Miller-Jones, JCA, Motta, SE, Heywood, I, Armstrong, RP, Groot, P, Horesh, A, Van Der Horst, AJ, Koerding, E, Mooley, KP, Rowlinson, A, Wijers, RAMJ

“…We recently obtained detections of the black hole X-ray binary (XRB) GX 339-4 in quiescence using the Meer Karoo Array Telescope (MeerKAT) radio telescope and Swift X-ray Telescope instrument on board the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, probing the lower end of the radio-X-ray correlation. …”

Contributions of the Swift/UV Optical Telescope to the Study of Short Gamma-ray Bursts by M. De Pasquale

“…Before the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, we knew little about short-duration Gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). …”
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Statistical Analysis of Long GRBs’ Prompt Emission and X-Ray Flares: Multivariate Clustering and Correlations by Joseph Saji, Shabnam Iyyani, Kratika Mazde

“…The extensive observations done by the X-ray Telescope on board Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have revealed the presence of late-time flares concurrent with the decaying afterglow emission. …”
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Using Neural Networks to Differentiate Newly Discovered BL Lacertae Objects and FSRQs among the 4FGL Unassociated Sources Employing Gamma-Ray, X-Ray, UV/Optical, and IR Data by Amanpreet Kaur, Stephen Kerby, Abraham D. Falcone

“…Among the ∼2157 unassociated sources in the third data release (DR3) of the fourth Fermi catalog, ∼1200 were observed with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory pointed instruments. These observations yielded 238 high signal-to-noise ratio X-ray sources within the 95% Fermi uncertainty regions. …”
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The Remarkable Predictive Power of Infrared Data of Blazars by P. Giommi, N. Sahakyan, D. Israyelyan, M. Manvelyan

“…In this study we utilized IR data at 3.4 and 4.6 μ m from the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Reactivation Mission, spanning 8 yr of observations, X-ray data from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory collected throughout the satellite’s lifetime, and 12 years of γ -ray measurements from the Fermi Large Area Telescope’s all-sky survey. …”
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A Swift Response to Newly Discovered, Nearby Transients by Peter J. Brown, Macie Robertson, Yaswant Devarakonda, Emily Sarria, David Pooley, Maximilian D. Stritzinger

“…The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has proven to be an extraordinary supernova (SN) observatory. …”
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Limits on Leptonic TeV Emission from the Cygnus Cocoon with Swift-XRT by David Guevel, Andrew Beardmore, Kim L. Page, Amy Lien, Ke Fang, Luigi Tibaldo, Sabrina Casanova, Petra Huentemeyer

“…We observed 11 fields in or near the Cygnus Cocoon with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory’s X-Ray Telescope (Swift-XRT) totaling 110 ks. …”
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Core-collapse Supernova Explosions in Active Galactic Nucleus Accretion Disks by Fu-Lin Li, Yu Liu, Xiao Fan, Mao-Kai Hu, Xuan Yang, Jin-Jun Geng, Xue-Feng Wu

“…The resulting SNe in the AGN disk are promising transient sources for UV and optical band detection by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, the Ultraviolet Explorer, and wide-field survey telescopes such as the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite, the Wide Field Survey Telescope, and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time at the Vera C. …”
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Investigating the Superorbital Modulations in 4U 1909 + 07, IGR J16418-4532, and IGR J16479-4514 with Swift XRT, BAT, and NuSTAR Observations by Nazma Islam, Robin H. D. Corbet, Joel B. Coley, Katja Pottschmidt, Felix Fuerst

“…To investigate the mechanisms driving these superorbital modulations, we have analyzed long-term Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift) Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) observations of three sgHMXBs: 4U 1909 + 07, IGR J16418–4532, and IGR J16479–4514, and constructed their dynamic power spectra and superorbital intensity profiles. …”
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Inferring the Redshift of More than 150 GRBs with a Machine-learning Ensemble Model by Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Elias Taira, Eric Wang, Elias Lehman, Aditya Narendra, Agnieszka Pollo, Grzegorz M. Madejski, Vahe Petrosian, Malgorzata Bogdan, Apratim Dey, Shubham Bhardwaj

“…To overcome this, we estimated GRB redshift via an ensemble-supervised machine-learning (ML) model that uses X-ray afterglows of long-duration GRBs observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The estimated redshifts are strongly correlated (a Pearson coefficient of 0.93) and have an rms error, namely, the square root of the average squared error 〈Δ z ^2 〉, of 0.46 with the observed redshifts showing the reliability of this method. …”
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NICER and Fermi GBM Observations of the First Galactic Ultraluminous X-Ray Pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 by Wilson-Hodge, Colleen A., Malacaria, Christian, Jenke, Peter A., Jaisawal, Gaurava K., Kerr, Matthew, Wolff, Michael T., Arzoumanian, Zaven, Doty, John P., Gendreau, Keith C., Guillot, Sebastien, Ho, Wynn C. G., LaMarr, Beverly, Markwardt, Craig B., Özel, Feryal, Ray, Paul S., Ramos-Lerate, Mercedes, Strohmayer, Tod E., Vezie, Michael L., Wood, Kent S., Chakrabarty, Deepto, Prigozhin, Gregory, Remillard, Ronald A

“…A new orbital ephemeris is obtained for the binary system using spin frequencies measured with GBM and 15-50 keV fluxes measured with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Burst Alert Telescope to model the system's intrinsic spin-up. …”
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Fierce Feedback in an Obscured, Sub-Eddington State of the Seyfert 1.2 Markarian 817 by Miranda K. Zak, Jon M. Miller, Ehud Behar, W. N. Brandt, Laura Brenneman, Paul A. Draghis, Elias Kammoun, Michael J. Koss, Mark T. Reynolds, Abderahmen Zoghbi

“…X-ray monitoring of Mrk 817 with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in 2022 revealed that the source flux had declined to a lower level than recorded at any prior point in the then 19 yr mission. …”
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Coronal X-Ray Emission from Nearby, Low-mass, Exoplanet Host Stars Observed by the MUSCLES and Mega-MUSCLES HST Treasury Survey Projects by Alexander Brown, P. Christian Schneider, Kevin France, Cynthia S. Froning, Allison A. Youngblood, David J. Wilson, R. O. Parke Loyd, J. Sebastian Pineda, Girish M. Duvvuri, Adam F. Kowalski, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson

“…In this paper we present results from X-ray observations of the coronal emission from these stars obtained using the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the XMM-Newton Observatory, and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The stars effectively sample the coronal activity of low-mass stars over a wide range of masses and ages. …”
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Powerful Radio Sources in the Southern Sky. II. A Swift X-Ray Perspective by F. Massaro, S. V. White, A. Paggi, A. Jimenez-Gallardo, J. P. Madrid, C. Mazzucchelli, W. R. Forman, A. Capetti, C. Leto, A. García-Pérez, C. C. Cheung, V. Chavushyan, N. P. H. Nesvadba, I. Andruchow, H. A. Peña-Herazo, E. Sani, R. Grossová, V. Reynaldi, R. P. Kraft, B. Balmaverde, S. Cellone

“…Here, we present an initial X-ray analysis of 89 G4Jy-3CRE radio sources with archival X-ray observations from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. We reduced a total of 624 Swift observations, for about 0.9 Ms of integrated exposure time. …”
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GRB 221009A: Discovery of an Exceptionally Rare Nearby and Energetic Gamma-Ray Burst by Maia A. Williams, Jamie A. Kennea, S. Dichiara, Kohei Kobayashi, Wataru B. Iwakiri, Andrew P. Beardmore, P. A. Evans, Sebastian Heinz, Amy Lien, S. R. Oates, Hitoshi Negoro, S. Bradley Cenko, Douglas J. K. Buisson, Dieter H. Hartmann, Gaurava K. Jaisawal, N. P. M. Kuin, Stephen Lesage, Kim L. Page, Tyler Parsotan, Dheeraj R. Pasham, B. Sbarufatti, Michael H. Siegel, Satoshi Sugita, George Younes, Elena Ambrosi, Zaven Arzoumanian, M. G. Bernardini, S. Campana, Milvia Capalbi, Regina Caputo, Antonino D’Aì, P. D’Avanzo, V. D’Elia, Massimiliano De Pasquale, R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris, Elizabeth Ferrara, Keith C. Gendreau, Jeffrey D. Gropp, Nobuyuki Kawai, Noel Klingler, Sibasish Laha, A. Melandri, Tatehiro Mihara, Michael Moss, Paul O’Brien, Julian P. Osborne, David M. Palmer, Matteo Perri, Motoko Serino, E. Sonbas, Michael Stamatikos, Rhaana Starling, G. Tagliaferri, Aaron Tohuvavohu, Silvia Zane, Houri Ziaeepour

“…We report the discovery of the unusually bright long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB), GRB 221009A, as observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift), Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, and Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer Mission. …”
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X-Ray Polarization of BL Lacertae in Outburst by Abel L. Peirson, Michela Negro, Ioannis Liodakis, Riccardo Middei, Dawoon E. Kim, Alan P. Marscher, Herman L. Marshall, Luigi Pacciani, Roger W. Romani, Kinwah Wu, Alessandro Di Marco, Niccoló Di Lalla, Nicola Omodei, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Iván Agudo, Pouya M. Kouch, Elina Lindfors, Francisco José Aceituno, Maria I. Bernardos, Giacomo Bonnoli, Víctor Casanova, Maya García-Comas, Beatriz Agís-González, César Husillos, Alessandro Marchini, Alfredo Sota, Carolina Casadio, Juan Escudero, Ioannis Myserlis, Albrecht Sievers, Mark Gurwell, Ramprasad Rao, Ryo Imazawa, Mahito Sasada, Yasushi Fukazawa, Koji S. Kawabata, Makoto Uemura, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Tatsuya Nakaoka, Hiroshi Akitaya, Yeon Cheong, Hyeon-Woo Jeong, Sincheol Kang, Sang-Hyun Kim, Sang-Sung Lee, Emmanouil Angelakis, Alexander Kraus, Nicoló Cibrario, Immacolata Donnarumma, Juri Poutanen, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Lucio A. Antonelli, Matteo Bachetti, Luca Baldini, Wayne H. Baumgartner, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stefano Bianchi, Stephen D. Bongiorno, Raffaella Bonino, Alessandro Brez, Niccoló Bucciantini, Fiamma Capitanio, Simone Castellano, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Chien-Ting Chen, Stefano Ciprini, Enrico Costa, Alessandra De Rosa, Ettore Del Monte, Laura Di Gesu, Victor Doroshenko, Michal Dovčiak, Steven R. Ehlert, Teruaki Enoto, Yuri Evangelista, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Javier A. Garcia, Shuichi Gunji, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Jeremy Heyl, Wataru Iwakiri, Philip Kaaret, Vladimir Karas, Takao Kitaguchi, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Henric Krawczynski, Fabio La Monaca, Luca Latronico, Grzegorz Madejski, Simone Maldera, Alberto Manfreda, Frédéric Marin, Andrea Marinucci, Francesco Massaro, Giorgio Matt, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Fabio Muleri, C.-Y. Ng, Stephen L. O’Dell, Chiara Oppedisano, Alessandro Papitto, George G. Pavlov, Matteo Perri, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Pierre-Olivier Petrucci, Maura Pilia, Andrea Possenti, Simonetta Puccetti, Brian D. Ramsey, John Rankin, Ajay Ratheesh, Oliver J. Roberts, Carmelo Sgró, Patrick Slane, Paolo Soffitta, Gloria Spandre, Douglas A. Swartz, Toru Tamagawa, Roberto Taverna, Yuzuru Tawara, Allyn F. Tennant, Nicholas E. Thomas, Francesco Tombesi, Alessio Trois, Sergey Tsygankov, Roberto Turolla, Jacco Vink, Martin C. Weisskopf, Fei Xie, Silvia Zane

“…During a recent X-ray/ γ -ray outburst, a 287 ks observation (2022 November 27–30) was taken using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), together with contemporaneous multiwavelength observations from the Neil Gehrels Swift observatory and XMM-Newton in soft X-rays (0.3–10 keV), NuSTAR in hard X-rays (3–70 keV), and optical polarization from the Calar Alto and Perkins Telescope observatories. …”
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First X-Ray Polarization Measurement Confirms the Low Black Hole Spin in LMC X-3 by Jiří Svoboda, Michal Dovčiak, James F. Steiner, Fabio Muleri, Adam Ingram, Anastasiya Yilmaz, Nicole Rodriguez Cavero, Lorenzo Marra, Juri Poutanen, Alexandra Veledina, Mehrnoosh Rahbardar Mojaver, Stefano Bianchi, Javier A. García, Philip Kaaret, Henric Krawczynski, Giorgio Matt, Jakub Podgorný, Martin C. Weisskopf, Fabian Kislat, Pierre-Olivier Petrucci, Maimouna Brigitte, Michal Bursa, Sergio Fabiani, Kun Hu, Sohee Chun, Guglielmo Mastroserio, Romana Mikus̆incová, Ajay Ratheesh, Roger W. Romani, Paolo Soffitta, Francesco Ursini, Silvia Zane, Iván Agudo, Lucio A. Antonelli, Matteo Bachetti, Luca Baldini, Wayne H. Baumgartner, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stephen D. Bongiorno, Raffaella Bonino, Alessandro Brez, Niccolò Bucciantini, Fiamma Capitanio, Simone Castellano, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Chien-Ting Chen, Stefano Ciprini, Enrico Costa, Alessandra De Rosa, Ettore Del Monte, Laura Di Gesu, Niccolò Di Lalla, Alessandro Di Marco, Immacolata Donnarumma, Victor Doroshenko, Steven R. Ehlert, Teruaki Enoto, Yuri Evangelista, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Shuichi Gunji, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Jeremy Heyl, Wataru Iwakiri, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Vladimír Karas, Takao Kitaguchi, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Fabio La Monaca, Luca Latronico, Ioannis Liodakis, Simone Maldera, Alberto Manfreda, Frédéric Marin, Andrea Marinucci, Alan P. Marscher, Herman L. Marshall, Francesco Massaro, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Michela Negro, Chi-Yung Ng, Stephen L. O’Dell, Nicola Omodei, Chiara Oppedisano, Alessandro Papitto, George G. Pavlov, Abel L. Peirson, Matteo Perri, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Maura Pilia, Andrea Possenti, Simonetta Puccetti, Brian D. Ramsey, John Rankin, Oliver J. Roberts, Carmelo Sgrò, Patrick Slane, Gloria Spandre, Douglas A. Swartz, Toru Tamagawa, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Roberto Taverna, Yuzuru Tawara, Allyn F. Tennant, Nicholas E. Thomas, Francesco Tombesi, Alessio Trois, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Roberto Turolla, Jacco Vink, Kinwah Wu, Fei Xie

“…Using accompanying spectroscopic observations by NICER, NuSTAR, and the Neil Gehrels Swift observatories, we confirm previous measurements of the black hole spin via the X-ray continuum method, a ≈ 0.2. …”
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