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GCN Circular 15767

Subject
GRB 140129A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
Date
2014-01-29T15:35:39Z (11 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
M.C. Stroh (PSU), B.P. Gompertz (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U.
Leicester), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia
(ASDC), A. Maselli  (INAF-IASFPA), D.N. Burrows (PSU), J.A. Kennea
(PSU) and A. Melandri report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

We have analysed 9.3 ks of XRT data for GRB 140129A (Melandri  et al.
GCN Circ. 15760),  from 99 s to 19.2 ks after the  BAT trigger. The
data comprise 45 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (the first 8 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 15764).

The light curve can be modelled with  a power-law decay with a decay
index of alpha=0.89 (+/-0.03).

A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.94 (+0.13, -0.12). The
best-fitting absorption column is  4.0 (+2.5, -1.4) x 10^20 cm^-2,
consistent with the Galactic value of 2.6 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Kalberla et
al. 2005). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux
conversion factor deduced from this spectrum  is 3.6 x 10^-11 (4.0 x
10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. 

A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column:	     4.0 (+2.5, -1.4) x 10^20 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 2.6 x 10^20 cm^-2
Excess significance: <1.6 sigma
Photon index:	     1.94 (+0.13, -0.12)

If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of
0.89, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 8.7 x 10^-3 count s^-1,
corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 3.1 x
10^-13 (3.5 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/00585128.

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