{
  "bibcode": "2021GCN.30691....1P",
  "body": "M. Perri (SSDC & INAF-OAR), V. D'Elia (SSDC & INAF-OAR), A. D'Ai\n(INAF-IASFPA), A. Tohuvavohu (U. Toronto), B. Sbarufatti (PSU), D.N.\nBurrows (PSU), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), P.A. Evans (U. Leicester)\nand K.L. Page report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:\n\nWe have analysed 7.3 ks of XRT data for GRB 210822A (Page et al. GCN\nCirc. 30677), from 64 s to 58.6 ks after the  BAT trigger. The data\ncomprise 1.2 ks in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (the first 9 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 Evans et\nal. (GCN Circ. 30682).\n\nThe light curve can be modelled with a series of power-law decays. The\ninitial decay index is alpha=0.93 (+0.09, -0.06). At T+145 s  the decay\nsteepens to an alpha of 3.2 (+1.8, -0.8). The light curve breaks again\nat T+157 s to a decay with alpha=1.081 (+0.016, -0.015),  again at\nT+3863 s s to alpha=1.81 (+0.12, -0.11),  and  again at T+22.4 ks s to\nalpha=-0.1 (+0.5, -1.4),  before a final break at T+29.6 ks s after\nwhich the decay index is 1.7 (+/-0.3).\n\nA spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed\npower-law with a photon spectral index\tof 1.829 (+/-0.019). The\nbest-fitting absorption column is  1.89 (+/-0.07) x 10^21 cm^-2, in\nexcess of the Galactic value of 1.5 x 10^21 cm^-2 (Willingale et al.\n2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 1.77 (+/-0.12) and a\nbest-fitting absorption column of 2.3 (+/-0.5) x 10^21 cm^-2. The\ncounts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor\ndeduced from this spectrum  is 4.0 x 10^-11 (5.2 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2\ncount^-1. \n\nA summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:\nTotal column:\t     2.3 (+/-0.5) x 10^21 cm^-2\nGalactic foreground: 1.5 x 10^21 cm^-2\nExcess significance: 3.1 sigma\nPhoton index:\t     1.77 (+/-0.12)\n\nIf the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of\n1.7, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.050 count s^-1,\ncorresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 2.0 x\n10^-12 (2.6 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/01069788.\n\nThis circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.",
  "circularId": 30691,
  "createdOn": 1629706130000,
  "email": "pae9@leicester.ac.uk",
  "subject": "GRB 210822A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis",
  "submitter": "Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>",
  "eventId": "GRB 210822A"
}