[vsnet-grb-info 28417] GRB 210725B: Swift-XRT refined Analysis

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  30520
SUBJECT: GRB 210725B: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
DATE:    21/07/26 18:58:04 GMT
FROM:    Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9 at leicester.ac.uk>

V. D'Elia (SSDC & INAF-OAR), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), D.N. Burrows (PSU),
J. D. Gropp (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P.
Beardmore (U. Leicester), P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), A. Melandri
(INAF-OAB) and M.G. Bernardini report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

We have analysed 4.9 ks of XRT data for GRB 210725B (Bernardini et al.
GCN Circ. 30508), from 94 s to 107.1 ks after the  BAT trigger. The
data comprise 68 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode with the remainder in
Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was
given by Goad et al. (GCN Circ. 30510).

The light curve can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay
index of alpha=3.43 (+0.20, -0.18).

A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index	of 1.77 (+0.29, -0.27). The
best-fitting absorption column is  6.6 (+2.7, -2.1) x 10^21 cm^-2, in
excess of the Galactic value of 2.0 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et al.
2013). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion
factor deduced from this spectrum  is 4.5 x 10^-11 (6.7 x 10^-11) erg
cm^-2 count^-1. 

A summary of the WT-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column:	     6.6 (+2.7, -2.1) x 10^21 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 2.0 x 10^20 cm^-2
Excess significance: 5.2 sigma
Photon index:	     1.77 (+0.29, -0.27)

The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/01061554.

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