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Swift-XRT products for GRB 160816A — Source 1

RA/Dec (J2000) = 21h 29m 38.59s, +37° 07′ 56.6″ +/- 3.8 (radius, 90%)

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Source 1 has been manually confirmed as the GRB afterglow so these products are no longer updated. The up-to-date data for the afterglow are now available through the main GRB results area for this GRB.

This is the probable afterglow because:

The source peak brightness is above the RASS limit

Light curve	Spectrum

We expect ~2.00×10^-3 serendipitous objects at least as bright as this source in this tiled dataset, based on the logN-logS distribution of Mateos et al. (2008) [More details]

Source details

Peak XRT count rate	0.109 (±0.025) ct s^-1
Mean XRT count rate	7.7 (±0.8) ×10^-2 ct s^-1
RASS upper limit	0.03 ct s^-1
Fading?	No
Mean flux (Observed, 0.3—10 keV)	3.5 (±0.4) ×10^-12 erg cm^-2s^-1
Peak flux (Observed, 0.3—10 keV)	4.9 (±1.1) ×10^-12 erg cm^-2s^-1
Mean rate (PSPC equivalent)	7.5 (±0.8) ×10^-2
Peak rate (PSPC equivalent)	0.105 (±0.024)