GCN Circular 30996
Subject
GRB 211025A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
Date
2021-10-25T15:46:10Z (3 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), M. Capalbi (INAF-IASFPA), M. Perri (SSDC &
INAF-OAR), V. D'Elia (SSDC & INAF-OAR), J.A. Kennea (PSU), A.
Tohuvavohu (U. Toronto), B. Sbarufatti (PSU), K.L. Page (U. Leicester),
A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester) and J.D. Gropp report on behalf of the
Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed 4.0 ks of XRT data for GRB 211025A (Gropp et al. GCN
Circ. 30986), from 115 s to 28.0 ks after the BAT trigger. The data
comprise 203 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (the first 6 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. 30987).
The late-time light curve (from T0+4.7 ks) can be modelled with a
power-law decay with a decay index of alpha=1.3 (+0.6, -0.4).
A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.91 (+/-0.06). The
best-fitting absorption column is 7.1 (+/-1.4) x 10^20 cm^-2, in
excess of the Galactic value of 2.4 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et al.
2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 2.33 (+0.22, -0.12)
and a best-fitting absorption column consistent with the Galactic
value. The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion
factor deduced from this spectrum is 2.8 x 10^-11 (3.1 x 10^-11) erg
cm^-2 count^-1.
A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column: 2.4 (+3.5, -0.0) x 10^20 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 2.4 x 10^20 cm^-2
Excess significance: <1.6 sigma
Photon index: 2.33 (+0.22, -0.12)
If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of
1.3, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 2.1 x 10^-3 count s^-1,
corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 5.8 x
10^-14 (6.4 x 10^-14) erg cm^-2 s^-1.
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/01081113.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.