出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：Swift is the only observatory which, due to its unique fast-slewing capability and broad-band energy coverage, can detect outbursts from Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs) from the very beginning and study their evolution panchromatically. Thanks to its flexible observing scheduling, which makes monitoring cost-effective, Swift has also performed a campaign that covers all phases of the lives of SFXTs with a high sensitivity in the soft X–ray regime, where most SFXTs had not been observed before. Our continued effort at monitorning SFXTs with 2–3 observations per week (1–2 ks) with the Swift X–Ray Telescope (XRT) over their entire visibility period has just finished its second year. We report on our findings on the long-term properties of SFXTs, their duty cycle, and the new outbursts caught by Swift during the second year.
