[vsnet-grb-info 11209] GRB 111204A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  12621
SUBJECT: GRB 111204A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
DATE:    11/12/05 01:50:04 GMT
FROM:    Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9 at leicester.ac.uk>

M.C. Stroh (PSU), D.N. Burrows (PSU), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), C.
Pagani (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), V. D'Elia (ASDC),
V. Mangano (INAF-IASFPA), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB), J.A. Kennea (PSU) and
E. Sonbas report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

We have analysed 8.4 ks of XRT data for GRB 111204A (Sonbas  et al. GCN
Circ. 12612), from 157 s to 27.3 ks after the  BAT trigger. The data
are entirely in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position
for this burst was given by Beardmore et al. (GCN. Circ 12614).

The light curve can be modelled with  a power-law decay with a decay
index of alpha=1.86 (+0.31, -0.17).

A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.2 (+/-0.4). The
best-fitting absorption column is  9 (+16, -8) x 10^20 cm^-2,
consistent with the Galactic value of 1.1 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Kalberla et
al. 2005). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux
conversion factor deduced from this spectrum  is 6.0 x 10^-11 (6.4 x
10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. 

A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column:	     9 (+16, -8) x 10^20 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 1.1 x 10^20 cm^-2
Excess significance: <1.6 sigma
Photon index:	     1.2 (+/-0.4)

The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00509018.

This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.