GCN Circular 5464
Subject
GRB060814: Break in the XRT light curve
Date
2006-08-17T17:21:36Z (18 years ago)
From
Alberto Moretti at Obs Brera Merate <alberto.moretti@brera.inaf.it>
A. Moretti (INAF-OAB), C. Guidorzi (Univ. Bicocca & INAF-OAB),
P. Romano (INAF-OAB), D.N. Burrows (PSU), N. Gehrels (GSFC)
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
Based on the most recent downlinked data on GRB060814 (trigger number
224552) we find clear evidence of a break in the light curve at
42(+/-6) ks from the burst trigger (see the light curve at
http://www.brera.inaf.it/~moretti/grbplot/xrt060814.gif )
which could be a jet break.
The light curve slope steepens from 1.04+/-0.05 to 1.9+/-0.3
(errors are quoted at 90% confidence level).
In order to convert the XRT count rate to absorbed (unabsorbed)
flux the conversion factor is 4.9E-11 (8.5E-11)
Therefore we encourage optical data collection on this GRB in order to
measure the redshift and to test whether this break is achromatic.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
