The First Year of S-CUBED: The Swift Small Magellanic Cloud Survey
The First Year of S-CUBED: The Swift Small Magellanic Cloud Survey
The Swift Small Magellanic Cloud Survey, S-CUBED, is a high cadence shallow X-ray survey of the SMC. The survey consists of 142 tiled pointings covering the optical extent of the SMC, which is performed weekly by NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, with an exposure per tile of 60 seconds. The …