TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 35364 SUBJECT: GRB 231215A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis DATE: 23/12/15 22:14:28 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@star.le.ac.uk> K.L. Page (U. Leicester), V. D'Elia (SSDC & INAF-OAR), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB), C. Salvaggio (INAF-OAB), D.N. Burrows (PSU), J. D. Gropp (PSU), S. Dichiara (PSU), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester) and P.A. Evans report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: We have analysed 6.7 ks of XRT data for GRB 231215A, from 2.7 ks to 33.0 ks after the BAT trigger. The data are entirely in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The light curve can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay index of alpha=1.95 (+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 1.89 (+0.20, -0.13). The best-fitting absorption column is 4.40 (+1.19, -0.15) x 10^21 cm^-2, consistent with the Galactic value of 4.2 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 4.2 x 10^-11 (6.3 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Total column: 4.40 (+1.19, -0.15) x 10^21 cm^-2 Galactic foreground: 4.2 x 10^21 cm^-2 Excess significance: <1.6 sigma Photon index: 1.89 (+0.20, -0.13) If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of 1.95, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 1.9 x 10^-3 count s^-1, corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 8.1 x 10^-14 (1.2 x 10^-13) erg cm^-2 s^-1. The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/01202522. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team. View this GCN Circular online at https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/35364. --- To unsubscribe, open this link in a web browser: https://gcn.nasa.gov/unsubscribe/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6InZzbmV0LW...