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gammaray

Xray decay from a gamma ray burst


Description

The X-ray decay light curve of Gamma ray burst 050525a obtained with the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on board the Swift satellite. The dataset has 63 brightness measurements in the 0.4-4.5 keV spectral band at times ranging from 2 minutes to 5 days after the burst.

Usage

data(gammaray)

Format

A data frame with 63 observations on the following 3 variables.

time

in seconds since burst

flux

X-ray flux in units of 10^-11 erg/cm2/s, 2-10 keV

error

measurement error of the flux based on detector signal-to-noise values

Source

A. J. Blustin and 64 coauthors, Astrophys. J. 637, 901-913 2006. Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507515.

Examples

data(gammaray)
## maybe str(gammaray) ; plot(gammaray) ...

faraway

Functions and Datasets for Books by Julian Faraway

v1.0.7
GPL
Authors
Julian Faraway <jjf23@bath.ac.uk>
Initial release
2016-02-12

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