[vsnet-grb-info 14595] GRB 140302A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  15909
SUBJECT: GRB 140302A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
DATE:    14/03/02 20:30:15 GMT
FROM:    Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9 at leicester.ac.uk>

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

We have analysed 6.0 ks of XRT data for GRB 140302A (Pagani  et al. GCN
Circ. 15901),  from 78 s to 23.2 ks after the  BAT trigger. The data
comprise 136 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode with the remainder in
Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was
given by Osborne et al. (GCN Circ. 15902).

The light curve can be modelled with an initial power-law decay with an
index of alpha=1.62 (+0.22, -0.23), followed by a break at T+183 s to
an alpha of 4.0 (+/-0.4).

A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index	of 1.08 (+0.16, -0.15). The
best-fitting absorption column is  3.1 (+1.0, -0.9) x 10^21 cm^-2, in
excess of the Galactic value of 1.5 x 10^21 cm^-2 (Kalberla et al.
2005). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion
factor deduced from this spectrum  is 6.8 x 10^-11 (7.7 x 10^-11) erg
cm^-2 count^-1. 

A summary of the WT-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column:	     3.1 (+1.0, -0.9) x 10^21 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 1.5 x 10^21 cm^-2
Excess significance: 3.2 sigma
Photon index:	     1.08 (+0.16, -0.15)

If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of
4.0, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 1.9 x 10^-10 count s^-1,
corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 1.3 x
10^-20 (1.4 x 10^-20) erg cm^-2 s^-1.

The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00589685.

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