The <i>Swift</i> bulge survey: motivation, strategy, and first X-ray results
The <i>Swift</i> bulge survey: motivation, strategy, and first X-ray results
Very faint X-ray transients (VFXTs) are X-ray transients with peak X-ray luminosities ($L_X$) of $L_X\lesssim10^{36}$ erg/s, which are not well-understood. We carried out a survey of 16 square degrees of the Galactic Bulge with the Swift Observatory, using short (60 s) exposures, and returning every 2 weeks for 19 epochs …