TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 13946 SUBJECT: GRB 121031A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis DATE: 12/11/02 16:48:38 GMT FROM: Valerio D'Elia at ASDC V. D'Elia (ASDC) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: We have analysed 9.2 ks of XRT data for GRB 121031A (D'Elia et al. GCN Circ. 13934), from 68 s to 22.6 ks after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 276 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was given by Goad et al. (GCN. Circ 13935, 13944). The late-time light curve (from T0+4.7 ks) can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay index of alpha=0.86 (+/-0.07). A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 2.03 (+/-0.08). The best-fitting absorption column is 4.6 (+0.4, -0.3) x 10^21 cm^-2, in excess of the Galactic value of 4.0 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Kalberla et al. 2005). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 2.33 (+/-0.10) and a best-fitting absorption column of 5.2 (+/-0.4) x 10^21 cm^-2. The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor deduced from this spectrum is 3.9 x 10^-11 (9.1 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Total column: 5.2 (+/-0.4) x 10^21 cm^-2 Galactic foreground: 4.0 x 10^20 cm^-2 Excess significance: 18.5 sigma Photon index: 2.33 (+/-0.10) The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00537195. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.