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Methods and results of an automatic analysis of a complete sample of Swift-XRT observations of GRBs

This substantial paper presented the largest uniformly processed GRB X-ray sample to date. It describes Leicester methods for afterglow data reduction to create positions, spectra and lightcurves. These methods are available to all, for any source type, as web-based tools; they are very popular world-wide. Tabulated lightcurve parameters for 318 GRB afterglows provide evidence for late-time jet energy injection, and allow others to apply model tests. Osborne directed the work for every section of this paper at the day-to-day level, providing decisions ensuring its scientific validity, and had significant roles in the structure and editing of the paper.