{
  "bibcode": "2016GCN.19858....1M",
  "body": "B. Mingo (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), P. D'Avanzo\n(INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia (ASDC), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), T.G.R. Roegiers\n(PSU), L.M. McCauley (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU) and P.A. Evans report on\nbehalf of the Swift-XRT team:\n\nWe have analysed 10 ks of XRT data for GRB 160824A (Evans et al. GCN\nCirc. 19855), from 81 s to 29.6 ks after the  BAT trigger. The data\ncomprise 105 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (the first 8 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 Goad et al.\n(GCN Circ. 19857).\n\nThe light curve can be modelled with a series of power-law decays. The\ninitial decay index is alpha=3.33 (+0.17, -0.18). At T+258 s  the decay\nflattens to an alpha of 0.44 (+0.05, -0.06) before breaking again at\nT+7762 s to a final decay with index alpha=1.31 (+/-0.14).\n\nA spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed\npower-law with a photon spectral index\tof 2.07 (+/-0.10). The\nbest-fitting absorption column is  1.18 (+0.11, -0.10) x 10^22 cm^-2,\nin excess of the Galactic value of 6.3 x 10^21 cm^-2 (Willingale et al.\n2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 1.96 (+/-0.13) and a\nbest-fitting absorption column of 1.05 (+0.14, -0.13) x 10^22 cm^-2.\nThe counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor\ndeduced from this spectrum  is 5.0 x 10^-11 (9.1 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2\ncount^-1. \n\nA summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:\nTotal column:\t     1.05 (+0.14, -0.13) x 10^22 cm^-2\nGalactic foreground: 6.3 x 10^21 cm^-2\nExcess significance: 5.3 sigma\nPhoton index:\t     1.96 (+/-0.13)\n\nIf the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of\n1.31, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.018 count s^-1,\ncorresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 8.8 x\n10^-13 (1.6 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/00709765.\n\nThis circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.",
  "circularId": 19858,
  "createdOn": 1472128175000,
  "email": "pae9@leicester.ac.uk",
  "subject": "GRB 160824A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis",
  "submitter": "Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>",
  "eventId": "GRB 160824A"
}