GCN Circular 6627

J. Racusin, J. Kennea, C. Pagani, L. Vetere (PSU), and P. Evans (U.
Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift/XRT team:

We have analyzed the first 15 ks of Swift XRT PC and WT data from GRB
070714B (Racusin et al., GCN 6620
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).  Using 770 s of overlapping XRT Photon
Counting mode and UVOT V-band data, we find an astrometrically corrected
X-ray position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment and matching UVOT field
sources to the USNO-B1 catalogue): RA, Dec = 57.84287, 28.29782 which is
equivalent to:

RA (J2000):  03h 51m 22.29s
Dec (J2000): +28d 17' 52.2"

with an uncertainty of 1.8 arcsec (90% confidence, radius).  This is 35
arcsec from the refined BAT position (Barbier et al., GCN 6623
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), and 1.4
arcsec from the Liverpool optical afterglow candidate (Melandri et al.,
GCN 6621
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).

The XRT light curve shows a fading behavior with super-imposed small
flaring.  The light curve can be fit with a power-law beginning with a
steep decay with a slope of 2.49 +/- 0.18 followed by a plateau beginning
at 413s +/- 50s with a slope of 0.60 +/- 0.29 until another break at 1187
+/- 270s with a decay of 1.73 +/- 0.11.

The X-ray PC and WT spectrum is well fit by an absorbed power law with a
photon index for 1.2 +/- 0.1 and a column density of 13 +/- 3 e20 cm^-2 in
excess of the galactic value (6.4e20 cm-2).  The absorbed (unabsorbed)
0.3-10.0 keV flux of the WT spectrum is 9.2e-10 (1.0e-9) erg cm^-2s^-1 and
the flux of the PC spectrum is 3.4e-12 (3.7e-12) ergs cm^-2 s^-1.

Assuming the source continues to decay at the same rate, we predict an XRT
count rate of 2.7e-4 counts/s at T0+24 hours, which corresponds to an
observed (unabsorbed) flux of 1.8e-13 (2.0e-13) ergs cm^-2 s^-1.

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