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XRT Light curves: Morphology, Flares and Energy

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arxiv astro-ph/0511107 v1 pith:3QHBSXEB submitted 2005-11-03 astro-ph

G. Chincarini , V. Mangano , A. Moretti , M. Perri , P. Romano , S. Campana , S. Covino , G. Tagliaferri
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L. Angelini D. Burrows P. Giommi J. Osborne Swift Team
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Following a brief introduction we show that the observations obtained so far with the Swift satellite begin to shed light over a variety of problems that were left open following the excellent performance and related discoveries of the Italian - Dutch Beppo SAX satellite. The XRT light curves show common characteristics that are reasonably understood within the framework of the fireball model. Unforeseen flares are however detected in a large fraction of the GRB observed and the energy emitted by the brightest ones may be as much as 85% of the total soft X ray emission measured by XRT. These characteristics seems to be common to long and short bursts.

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