GCN Circular 23683

P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia (ASDC), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), J.A.
Kennea (PSU), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB/PSU), D.N. Burrows (PSU), J.P.
Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U.
Leicester) and S.J. LaPorte report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

We have analysed 6.8 ks of XRT data for GRB 190114A (LaPorte et al. GCN
Circ. 23677
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), from 235 s to 19.0 ks after the  BAT trigger. The data
comprise 64 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 Evans et
al. (GCN Circ. 23679
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).

The light curve can be modelled with a series of power-law decays. The
initial decay index is alpha=7.87 (+0.13, -0.43). At T+403 s  the decay
flattens to an alpha of 0.01 (+0.20, -0.17) before breaking again at
T+2398 s to a final decay with index alpha=1.16 (+/-0.14).

A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index	of 2.38 (+0.17, -0.12). The
best-fitting absorption column is  1 (+13, -1) x 10^21 cm^-2, at a
redshift of 3.3765, in addition to the Galactic value of 1.6 x 10^21
cm^-2 (Willingale et al. 2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index
of 1.80 (+0.09, -0.08) and a best-fitting absorption column of 2 (+10,
-2) x 10^21 cm^-2. The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux
conversion factor deduced from this spectrum  is 3.9 x 10^-11 (4.8 x
10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. 

A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Galactic foreground: 1.6 x 10^21 cm^-2
Intrinsic column:    2 (+10, -2) x 10^21 cm^-2 at z=3.3765
Photon index:	     1.80 (+0.09, -0.08)

If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of
1.16, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.013 count s^-1,
corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 5.0 x
10^-13 (6.2 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/00883600.

This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.