[vsnet-grb-info 1966] GRB 050814: XRT refined analysis
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Mon Aug 15 09:59:50 JST 2005
TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER: 3805
SUBJECT: GRB 050814: XRT refined analysis
DATE: 05/08/15 00:57:40 GMT
FROM: David Morris at PSU/Swift-XRT <morris at astro.psu.edu>
D. C. Morris, D. N. Burrows, J. A. Kennea, J. L. Racusin (PSU), and N.
Gehrels (GSFC) report on behalf of the Swift XRT team:
We have analysed the first five orbits of data for GRB050814 (GCN 3799,
Retter et al., 2005). Using xrtcentoid, the refined position is:
RA(J2000) = 17h 36m 45.7s
Dec(J2000) = +46d 20' 20.5"
with an uncertainty of 8 arcsec. This is 5.4 arcsec from the original
XRT position (GCN 3800, Morris et al., 2005). The initially distributed
XRT position was based on the first orbit of PC data and may have been
effected by a hot column at the position of the source. The refined
position is calculated by analyzing several orbits of PC data, each
taken at slightly different positions on the detector, so that the hot
column in the first orbit of data is no longer a problem for the
centroiding algorithm.
The XRT began taking data at 11:41:15UT, 138 seconds after the BAT
trigger. Both the windowed timing and photon counting data from the
first orbit show a fading lightcurve consistent with a decay index of
~4. Photon counting data from subsequent orbits shows a flattening of
the lightcurve near T+1000s to a decay index of ~0.1.
The windowed timing spectrum (data from +165s to +383 after the BAT
trigger) is well fit (reduced chi-sq of 1.22 for 72 dof) by a power law
with neutral hydrogen somewhat larger than the galactic column density
of 2.57e20:
gamma=2.1 ± 0.1
NH=6.94e20 ± 2e18
The photon counting spectrum (from +383s through orbit 5) is well fit
(reduced chi-sq of 0.61 for 31 dof) by a power law also with excess
absorption:
gamma=1.8 ± 0.2
NH=7.82e20 ± 7e18
The count rate at 20000s after the trigger is ~0.15 cts/s which converts
to an unabsorbed flux of 4.76e-12 ergs cm^-2 s^-1.
It should be noted that the early versions of the SDC data contained
processing errors, likely due to earthlimb contamination, which may yet
be contributing to some peculiarities in the PC lightcurve.
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