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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%) 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Source 1 has been manually confirmed as the GRB afterglow so these products are no longer updated.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 ~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 rate0.109 (±0.025) ct s-1
Mean XRT count rate7.7 (±0.8) ×10-2 ct s-1
RASS upper limit0.03 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)