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Swift-XRT products for GRB 160521B — Source 1

RA/Dec (J2000) = 09h 50m 39.96s, +79° 01′ 49.7″ +/- 4.2 (radius, 90%) Vizier logo

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Source 1 has been manually confirmed as the GRB afterglow so these products are no longer updated.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:

Light curve Spectrum
Image of the light curve Image of the spectrum

We expect ~1.82×10-3 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 rate8.8 (±1.6) ×10-3 ct s-1
Mean XRT count rate8.1 (±1.4) ×10-3 ct s-1
RASS upper limit0.03 ct s-1
Fading?Yes
Mean flux
(Observed, 0.3—10 keV)		2.6 (±0.5) ×10-13 erg cm-2s-1
Peak flux
(Observed, 0.3—10 keV)		2.9 (±0.5) ×10-13 erg cm-2s-1
Mean rate
(PSPC equivalent)		4.8 (±0.8) ×10-3
Peak rate
(PSPC equivalent)		5.2 (±0.9) ×10-3