Multi-frequency, multi-messenger astrophysics with Swift. The case of blazars

Understand

During its first 10 years of orbital operations Swift dedicated approximately 11% of its observing time to blazars, carrying out more than 12,000 observations of ~1,600 different objects, for a total exposure time of over 25 million seconds.

• In this paper I briefly discuss the impact that Swift is having on blazar multi-frequency and time-domain astrophysics, as well as how it is contributing to the opening of the era of multi-messenger astronomy.
• Finally, I present some preliminary results from a systematic analysis of a very large number of Swift XRT observations of blazars.
• All the "science ready" data products that are being generated by this project will be publicly released.