GCN Circular 6427

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

We have analysed the first four orbits of XRT data on
GRB 070520A (Romano et al., GCN Circ. 6423
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) with total observing
times of 79 s in Windowed Timing mode (from T+165 to T+244 s)
and 6.5 ks in Photon Counting mode (from T+3565 s).
The Photon Counting mode image provides a refined XRT
position at RA,DEC(J2000) = 193.36131,+74.99038 which is

RA(J2000)  = 12h 53m 26.72s
Dec(J2000) = +74d 59' 25.4"

with an uncertainty of 4.1 arcsec (radius, 90% containment).
This is  2.6 arcsec from the initial X-ray position,
and 43 arcsec from the initial BAT position (Romano et al.,
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).

The XRT light curve exhibits an initial flaring behaviour throughout
the first orbit (in the WT data, i.e., up to T+244 s) with an
underlying power-law with slope 4.4+/-0.5.
The PC data start at  T+3565 s, when the count rate had decreased by
three orders of magnitude. The PC data power-law slope is 0.1+/-0.4.

The mean WT spectrum, extracted during the flaring activity,
can be fit with an absorbed power law with a photon index of 3.1+/-0.2
and a column density of (2.2+/-0.4)E21 cm^-2 significantly in excess
of the Galactic value (2.3E20 cm^-2; Dickey & Lockman, 1990).
The absorbed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10.0keV flux for the WT spectrum is
5.2E-10 (1.5E-9) ergs cm^-2 s^-1.

Assuming the source continues to decay at the present rate, we
predict an XRT count rate of 1E-4 counts/s at T+24 hours,
which corresponds to an unabsorbed flux of 5E-15 ergs cm^-2 s^-1.

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

[GCN OPS NOTE(21may07):  Per author's request, the sentence starting
"The absorbed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10.0keV flux ..." was added.]