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GCN Circular 42493

Subject
GRB 251025B: Swift-XRT confirmation of fading
Event
GRB 251025B
Date
2025-10-27T20:42:45Z (3 days ago)
From
P.A. Evans at U. Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
Via
email
P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

Swift-XRT has reobserved the X-ray afterglow of GRB 251025B (Hussein et al.,
GCN Circ. 42437, Beardmore et al., GCN Circ. 42245), gathering a further
2.6 ks of exposure from T0+131 ks to T0+154 ks. 

The X-ray source is detected but has faded significantly, from 0.30 +/- 0.02 ct/sec 
to 0.009 (+0.003, -0.002) ct/sec (0.3-10 keV), further confirming its identity as the
afterglow of this GRB. The best-fitting power-law decay index is 0.95 (+0.15, -0.12).

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