GCN Circular 10055
Subject
GRB 091018: Swift XRT refined analysis
Event
Date
2009-10-21T11:55:55Z (17 years ago)
From
Giulia Stratta at ASDC <giulia.stratta@gmail.com>
G. Stratta (ASDC) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
The Swift-XRT began observing GRB 091018 (trigger=373172) on
2009-10-18 at 20:49:20.5 UT, 60.9 seconds after the BAT trigger
(Stamatikos et al., GCN Circ. 7226). The data have been
taken in Windowed Timing (WT) mode from T + 67 s to T + 144 s
and in Photon Counting (PC) mode later on.
Enhanced position of the detected, bright X-ray afterglow
was given by Osborne et al. (GCN Circ. 10037)
The X-ray light curve from T + 67 s to T + 53.3 ks is well
fit by a broken power law model (chi^2 = 115 for 128 degrees
of freedom) with a temporal break at tb = T + (500 +/- 100) s and
decay indices alpha1 = -0.4 +/- 0.1 and alpha2 = -1.17 +/- 0.03
before and after the break, respectively.
The 0.3-10 keV spectrum from T + 156 s to T + 7.1 ks
is well fit by an absorbed power law (reduced chi2 of 1.0, with
50 degrees of freedom). The best fit photon index is 1.9 +/- 0.1,
with an hydrogen column density at the burst rest frame
(z=0.971, Hsiao-Wen Chen et al. GCN Circ.10038) of
NHz = (1.4 +/- 0.8)e21 cm^-2 in addition to the Galactic column
along the line of sight, that is NH = 2.8e20 cm^-2
(Kalberla et al. 2005). Errors are given at 90% confidence level.
The observed (unabsorbed) flux in the 0.3-10 keV band is
1.5(1.8)e-10 erg cm^-2 s^-1.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.