TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 32611 SUBJECT: GRB 220930A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis DATE: 22/10/01 04:58:30 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester pae9@leicester.ac.uk
V. D'Elia (SSDC & INAF-OAR), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB), D.N. Burrows (PSU), J. D. Gropp (PSU), S. Dichiara (PSU), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA) and S.B. Cenko report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed 6.9 ks of XRT data for GRB 220930A (Cenko et al. GCN Circ. 32603), from 160 s to 35.9 ks after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 390 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (the first 9 s were taken while Swift was slewing) with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was given by Evans et al. (GCN Circ. 32605).
The late-time light curve (from T0+5.1 ks) can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay index of alpha=1.28 (+/-0.11).
A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.59 (+/-0.08). The best-fitting absorption column is 4.9 (+0.6, -0.5) x 10^21 cm^-2, in excess of the Galactic value of 2.8 x 10^21 cm^-2 (Willingale et al. 2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 1.82 (+0.16, -0.15) and a best-fitting absorption column of 6.4 (+1.2, -1.1) x 10^21 cm^-2. The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor deduced from this spectrum is 4.7 x 10^-11 (7.3 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1.
A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Total column: 6.4 (+1.2, -1.1) x 10^21 cm^-2 Galactic foreground: 2.8 x 10^21 cm^-2 Excess significance: 5.4 sigma Photon index: 1.82 (+0.16, -0.15)
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 0.017 count s^-1, corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 8.3 x 10^-13 (1.3 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/01125809.
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