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<i>Swift</i>XRT Observations of the Afterglow of XRF 050416A

<i>Swift</i>XRT Observations of the Afterglow of XRF 050416A

Swift discovered XRF 050416A with the Burst Alert Telescope and began observing it with its narrow-field instruments only 64.5 s after the burst onset. Its very soft spectrum classifies this event as an X-ray flash. The afterglow X-ray emission was monitored up to 74 days after the burst. The X-ray …