[vsnet-grb-info 18079] GRB 160611A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  19527
SUBJECT: GRB 160611A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
DATE:    16/06/12 12:58:59 GMT
FROM:    Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9 at leicester.ac.uk>

T.G.R. Roegiers (PSU), L.M. McCauley (PSU), J.P. Osborne (U.
Leicester), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), B. Mingo (U. Leicester), P.
D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia (ASDC), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), J.A.
Kennea (PSU) and D. Malesani report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

We have analysed 7.9 ks of XRT data for GRB 160611A (Malesani et al.
GCN Circ. 19522), from 2.7 ks to 44.8 ks after the  BAT trigger. The
data comprise 50 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. 19524).

The light curve can be modelled with a series of power-law decays. The
initial decay index is alpha=1.54 (+0.48, -0.21). At T+5128 s  the
decay flattens to an alpha of -0.7 (+1.3, -0.8) before breaking again
at T+7161 s to a final decay with index alpha=1.28 (+0.10, -0.09).

A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index of 2.01 (+0.12, -0.11). The
best-fitting absorption column is  5.0 (+0.7, -0.6) x 10^21 cm^-2, in
excess of the Galactic value of 1.7 x 10^21 cm^-2 (Willingale et al.
2013). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion
factor deduced from this spectrum  is 4.0 x 10^-11 (6.6 x 10^-11) erg
cm^-2 count^-1. 

A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column:	     5.0 (+0.7, -0.6) x 10^21 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 1.7 x 10^21 cm^-2
Excess significance: 8.5 sigma
Photon index:	     2.01 (+0.12, -0.11)

If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of
1.28, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.021 count s^-1,
corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 8.4 x
10^-13 (1.4 x 10^-12) erg cm^-2 s^-1.

The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00690598.

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