TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 11794 SUBJECT: GRB 110315A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis DATE: 11/03/16 15:26:41 GMT FROM: Andrea Melandri at INAF-OAB A. Melandri, B. Sbarufatti, R. Margutti and P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: We have analysed 14 ks of XRT data for GRB 110315A (Melandri et al. GCN Circ. 11790), from 94 s to 34.8 ks after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 97 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (the first 8 s were taken while Swift was slewing) with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was given by Beardmore et al. (GCN. Circ 11792). The light curve can be modelled with an initial power-law decay with an index of alpha=2.48 (+0.64, -0.53), followed by a break at T+150 s to an alpha of 1.03 (+0.03, -0.03). Flaring activity is detected around T+500 s. A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 2.14 (+0.26, -0.24). The best-fitting absorption column is 2.5 (+0.8, -0.7) x 10^21 cm^-2, in excess of the Galactic value of 1.8 x 10^21 cm^-2 (Kalberla et al. 2005). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 2.19 (+0.15, -0.12) and a best-fitting absorption column of 2.7 (+/-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 (6.7 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Total column: 2.7 (+/-0.4) x 10^21 cm^-2 Galactic foreground: 1.8 x 10^21 cm^-2 Excess significance: 10.0 sigma Photon index: 2.19 (+0.15, -0.12) The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00449399. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.