GCN Circular 9550
Subject
GRB 090621B: Swift-XRT refined analysis
Event
Date
2009-06-22T10:16:55Z (17 years ago)
From
Andy Beardmore at U Leicester <apb@star.le.ac.uk>
A.P. Beardmore, K.L. Page (U. Leicester) and P.A. Curran (UCL-MSSL)
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed five orbits of Swift-XRT photon counting (PC) mode data
from GRB 090621B (Curran et al., GCN Circ. 9545), spanning the interval
T+80 s to T+19.5 ks after the trigger. In 10.0 ks we find a refined XRT
position of RA, Dec = 313.47049, 69.02845, which is equivalent to
RA (J2000) = 20:53:52.92
Dec(J2000) = +69:01:42.4
with an uncertainty of 4.0 arcsec (90% containment). This position
is 1.2 arcsec from the XRT position quoted in GCN Circ. 9545.
The X-ray light-curve shows a faint, fading source with a decay index
of 0.61 +/- 0.19. If the source continues to decay at the same rate
we predict an XRT count rate of 8.6e-4 count s^-1 at T+24 hours.
The PC mode spectrum from T+80 s to T+17.1 ks can be fit by an absorbed
powerlaw with a photon index of 1.47+/-0.66, assuming a Galactic column
density of 1.9e21cm^-2 in the direction of the burst. The observed
(unabsorbed) 0.3-10keV flux for this model is 3.8e-13 (4.5e-13)
erg cm^-2 s^-1.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.