GCN Circular 5297

S.D. Vergani (DIAS & DCU), C. Guidorzi (Univ. Bicocca & INAF-OABr), P. 
Romano (INAF-OABr), and A. Moretti (INAF-OABr), report on behalf of the 
Swift-XRT team:

We have analyzed the first two orbits of data of GRB 060708 (Moretti et 
al., GCN 5292
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). The XRT data set consists of 169 s exposure in windowed 
timing (WT) mode followed by 2.67 ks exposure in photon counting (PC) mode.

The refined position of the source is

  RA  (J2000) =  00h 31m 13.53s
  Dec (J2000) = -33d 45' 33.3"

with an uncertainty of 3.8 arcsec (90% containment).

This position is 4.0 arcsec from the XRT on board position, 2.9 arcsec 
and 4.1 arcsec from the XRT and UVOT positions respectively, reported by 
Moretti at al. (GCN 5292
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).

The 0.3-10 keV X-ray light curve shows a double broken power-law decay, 
starting with a steep segment (alpha ~ 4) that become shallower (alpha ~ 
0.8) after ~200 s from BAT trigger time.

The WT spectrum is fitted by an absorbed power law with photon index 3.3 
+/- 0.1 and N_H of about 1.5E21 cm^-2, in excess with respect to the 
Galactic value (1.8E20 cm^-2).

The PC spectrum is fitted by an absorbed power law with photon index 2.3 
+/- 0.1 and N_H of about 8.8E20 cm^-2.

Assuming alpha ~ 0.8, the extrapolated unabsorbed flux (0.3-10 KeV) at 
24 hours is 9.7E-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1.

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