TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 38773 SUBJECT: GRB 250101A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis DATE: 25/01/02 02:14:48 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester pae9@star.le.ac.uk
S. Dichiara (PSU), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), A. Melandri (INAF-OAR), T. Sbarrato (INAF-OAB), J.A. Kennea (PSU), D.N. Burrows (PSU) and P.A. Evans report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed 6.8 ks of XRT data for GRB 250101A, from 110 s to 39.2 ks after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 10 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (taken while Swift was slewing), with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode.
The light curve can be modelled with a series of power-law decays. The initial decay index is alpha=2.8 (+/-0.7). At T+249 s the decay flattens to an alpha of 0.06 (+0.29, -0.74) before breaking again at T+909 s to a final decay with index alpha=0.79 (+0.13, -0.09).
A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 2.02 (+0.18, -0.17). The best-fitting absorption column is 1.7 (+1.3, -1.1) x 10^22 cm^-2, at a redshift of 2.49, in addition to the Galactic value of 1.4 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 3.6 x 10^-11 (5.1 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1.
A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Galactic foreground: 1.4 x 10^21 cm^-2 Intrinsic column: 1.7 (+1.3, -1.1) x 10^22 cm^-2 at z=2.49 Photon index: 2.02 (+0.18, -0.17)
If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of 0.79, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.018 count s^-1, corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 6.4 x 10^-13 (9.1 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/01278305.
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