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Combined Swift BAT-XRT Lightcurves

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In this paper we make an attempt to combine the two kinds of data from the Swift-XRT instrument (windowed timing and photon counting modes) and the from BAT. A thorough desription of the applied procedure will be given. We apply various binning techniques to the different data: Bayes blocks, exponential binning and signal-to-noise type of binning. We present a handful of lightcurves and some possible applications.

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P. Veres, Z. Bagoly, J. Kelemen, I. Horvath, L. G. Balazs, A. Meszaros, G. Tusnady. 2009-01-31. Combined Swift BAT-XRT Lightcurves. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3027947

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