{
  "bibcode": "2021GCN.29278....1E",
  "body": "P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), M.G. Bernardini\n(INAF-OAB), E. Ambrosi\t(INAF-IASFPA) , M. Capalbi (INAF-IASFPA), A.\nTohuvavohu (U. Toronto), B. Sbarufatti (PSU), D.N. Burrows (PSU) and\nA.P. Beardmore report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:\n\nWe have analysed 2.8 ks of XRT data for GRB 201216C (Beardmore et al.\nGCN Circ. 29061), from 3.0 ks to 1896.5 ks after the  BAT trigger. The\ndata comprise 466 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode with the remainder in\nPhoton Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was\ngiven by Osborne et al. (GCN Circ. 29067).\n\nThe light curve can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay\nindex of alpha=1.97 (+0.10, -0.09).\n\nA spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed\npower-law with a photon spectral index\tof 2.35 (+0.17, -0.16). The\nbest-fitting absorption column is  7.7 (+1.2, -1.1) x 10^21 cm^-2, in\nexcess of the Galactic value of 5.0 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et al.\n2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 2.03 (+0.16, -0.15)\nand a best-fitting absorption column of 5.6 (+1.0, -0.9) x 10^21 cm^-2.\nThe counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor\ndeduced from this spectrum  is 4.2 x 10^-11 (8.0 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2\ncount^-1. \n\nA summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:\nTotal column:\t     5.6 (+1.0, -0.9) x 10^21 cm^-2\nGalactic foreground: 5.0 x 10^20 cm^-2\nExcess significance: 9.3 sigma\nPhoton index:\t     2.03 (+0.16, -0.15)\n\nThe results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at\nhttp://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/01013243.\n\nThis circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.",
  "circularId": 29278,
  "createdOn": 1610074196000,
  "email": "pae9@leicester.ac.uk",
  "subject": "GRB 201216C: Swift-XRT refined Analysis",
  "submitter": "Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>",
  "eventId": "GRB 201216C"
}