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GCN Circular 9810

Subject
GRB 090814B: Confirmation of the X-ray afterglow
Date
2009-08-15T08:16:49Z (15 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@star.le.ac.uk>
P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) and W.H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC) report on
behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

The Swift-XRT conducted a second observation of GRB 090814B (Beckmann et
al. GCN. Circ. 9795), gathering 3.3 ks of data between T0+48 ks and
T0+60 ks. The source reported by Evans & Baumgartner (GCN Circ. 9803)
has faded to a level of 0.11 �� 0.03 count/sec, with a power-law decay
index of alpha=0.7+/-0.3. This source is thus confirmed as the afterglow
of GRB 090814B.

The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00020107.

This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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