TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 6569 SUBJECT: GRB070621: Swift XRT refined analysis DATE: 07/06/22 11:31:25 GMT FROM: Boris Sbarufatti at INAF-IASF-Pa B. Sbarufatti (INAF-IASFPA), P. Romano, C. Guidorzi (Univ. Bicocca & INAF-OAB) A. Moretti (INAF-OAB) report, on behalf of the Swift-XRT team We have analysed the first three orbits of Swift XRT data for GRB070621 (Sbarufatti et al., GCN Circ. 6560), consisting of 150 s in Window Timing mode data and 1.3 ks in Photon Counting mode. The UVOT enhanced XRT position (Sbarufatti et al., GCN Circ. 6567) is RA, Dec = 323.79225, -24.81752 which is equivalent to: RA (J2000): 21 35 10.14 Dec (J2000): -24 49 03.1 with an uncertainty of 2.0 arcsec (90% confidence). The X-ray light curve exhibits an initial steep decay (index -3.8 +/-0.1) up to T+380 s. A flare is observed around T+150s. After the break, the count-rate decays with a power-law index of -0.91 +/- 0.04. If the present slow decay continues, the predicted count rate 24h after the trigger is 2.1E-2 counts/s, corresponding to a flux of 1.8E-12 ergs cm^-2 s^-1. The WT and PC spectra can be fitted simultaneously with an absorbed power-law model with a photon index 2.5+/-0.3 and a column density (4.4 +/- 0.9)E21 cm^-2, significantly in excess with respect to the galactic value (3.5E20 cm^-2, Dickey & Lockman, 1990). The absorbed (unabsorbed) fluxes are 8.4E-10 (2.2E-09) ergs cm^-2 s^-1 for the WT spectrum and 1.4E-11 (3.6E-11) ergs cm^-2 s^-1 for the PC spectrum. This circular is an official product of the XRT team.