GCN Circular 19660
Subject
GRB 160705B: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
Date
2016-07-06T06:46:50Z (8 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
D.N. Burrows (PSU), T.G.R. Roegiers (PSU), A.P. Beardmore (U.
Leicester), P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), S.L. Gibson (U. Leicester), A.
Melandri (INAF-OAB), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia (ASDC), L.M.
McCauley (PSU) and J.K. Cannizzo report on behalf of the Swift-XRT
team:
We have analysed 6.3 ks of XRT data for GRB 160705B (Cannizzo et al.
GCN Circ. 19657), from 130 s to 23.8 ks after the BAT trigger. The
data comprise 132 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (the first 9 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
Osborne et al. (GCN Circ. 19659).
The light curve can be modelled with an initial power-law decay with an
index of alpha=3.81 (+0.14, -0.13), followed by a break at T+563 s to
an alpha of 0.60 (+0.12, -0.13).
A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index of 2.66 (+0.14, -0.13). The
best-fitting absorption column is 10.0 (+2.5, -2.4) x 10^20 cm^-2, in
excess of the Galactic value of 1.2 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et al.
2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 2.15 (+0.23, -0.21)
and a best-fitting absorption column of 8.1 (+5.2, -4.5) x 10^20 cm^-2.
The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor
deduced from this spectrum is 3.1 x 10^-11 (3.8 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2
count^-1.
A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column: 8.1 (+5.2, -4.5) x 10^20 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 1.2 x 10^20 cm^-2
Excess significance: 2.5 sigma
Photon index: 2.15 (+0.23, -0.21)
If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of
0.60, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.012 count s^-1,
corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 3.5 x
10^-13 (4.4 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/00703176.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.