[vsnet-grb-info 22056] GRB 190422A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  24155
SUBJECT: GRB 190422A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
DATE:    19/04/23 14:32:12 GMT
FROM:    Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9 at leicester.ac.uk>

D.N. Burrows (PSU), A. Tohuvavohu (PSU), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester),
P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), A. D'Ai
(INAF-IASFPA), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), S. J.
LaPorte (PSU) and M.J. Moss report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

We have analysed 6.8 ks of XRT data for GRB 190422A (Moss et al. GCN
Circ. 24147), from 536 s to 31.0 ks after the  BAT trigger. The data
are entirely in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position
for this burst was given by Evans et al. (GCN Circ. 24151).

The light curve can be modelled with a series of power-law decays. The
initial decay index is alpha=3.7 (+1.8, -1.2). At T+895 s  the decay
flattens to an alpha of -0.4 (+0.4, -0.5) before breaking again at
T+3926 s to a final decay with index alpha=0.54 (+/-0.15).

A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index of 2.04 (+0.18, -0.17). The
best-fitting absorption column is  1.66 (+0.25, -0.23) x 10^22 cm^-2,
in excess of the Galactic value of 8.6 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 5.5 x 10^-11 (1.2 x 10^-10) erg
cm^-2 count^-1. 

A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column:	     1.66 (+0.25, -0.23) x 10^22 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 8.6 x 10^21 cm^-2
Excess significance: 5.7 sigma
Photon index:	     2.04 (+0.18, -0.17)

If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of
0.54, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.11 count s^-1,
corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 6.3 x
10^-12 (1.4 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 s^-1.

The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00899979.

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