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  "bibcode": "2010GCN.11452....1E",
  "body": "P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) and T. Sakamoto (NASA/UMBC) report on behalf\nof the Swift-XRT team:\n\nWe have analysed 4.9 ks of XRT data for GRB 101213A (Sakamoto  et al.\nGCN Circ. 11448), from 95 s to 16.9 ks after the  BAT trigger. The data\ncomprise 270 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (the first 9 s were taken\nwhile Swift was slewing) with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC)\nmode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was given by Osborne et\nal. (GCN. Circ 11450).\n\nThe light curve can be modelled with a series of power-law decays. The\ninitial decay index is alpha=2.33 (+/-0.14). At T+196 s the decay\nsteepens to an alpha of 3.14 (+0.27, -0.18) before breaking again at\nT+407 s to a final decay with index alpha=0.90 (+0.04, -0.05).\n\nA spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed\npower-law with a photon spectral index\tof 2.62 (+0.08, -0.07). The\nbest-fitting absorption column is  5.73 (+0.30, -0.29) x 10^21 cm^-2,\nin excess of the Galactic value of 4.6 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Kalberla et al.\n2005). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 2.44 (+0.18, -0.17)\nand a best-fitting absorption column of 6.5 (+0.9, -0.8) x 10^21 cm^-2.\nThe counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor\ndeduced from this spectrum  is 4.4 x 10^-11 (1.2 x 10^-10) erg cm^-2\ncount^-1. \n\nA summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:\nTotal column:\t     6.5 (+0.9, -0.8) x 10^21 cm^-2\nGalactic foreground: 4.6 x 10^20 cm^-2\nExcess significance: 13.5 sigma\nPhoton index:\t     2.44 (+0.18, -0.17)\n\nIf the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of\n0.90, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.021 count s^-1,\ncorresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 9.4 x\n10^-13 (2.6 x 10^-12) erg cm^-2 s^-1.\n\nThe results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at\nhttp://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00440285.\n\nThis circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.",
  "circularId": 11452,
  "createdOn": 1292264940000,
  "email": "pae9@star.le.ac.uk",
  "subject": "GRB 101213A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis",
  "submitter": "Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9@star.le.ac.uk>",
  "eventId": "GRB 101213A"
}