TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 30457 SUBJECT: GRB 210712A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis DATE: 21/07/13 03:01:23 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester D.N. Burrows (PSU), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), M.G. Bernardini (INAF-OAB), E. Ambrosi (INAF-IASFPA) , J. D. Gropp (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU) and B. Sbarufatti report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: We have analysed 8.5 ks of XRT data for GRB 210712A (Sbarufatti et al. GCN Circ. 30447), from 86 s to 44.8 ks after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 164 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was given by Evans et al. (GCN Circ. 30453). The late-time light curve (from T0+5.4 ks) can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay index of alpha=1.06 (+0.10, -0.09). A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.52 (+/-0.06). The best-fitting absorption column is 1.10 (+0.22, -0.21) x 10^21 cm^-2, consistent with the Galactic value of 8.9 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et al. 2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 1.98 (+0.13, -0.09) and a best-fitting absorption column consistent with the Galactic value. The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor deduced from this spectrum is 3.3 x 10^-11 (4.0 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Total column: 8.9 (+2.9, -0.0) x 10^20 cm^-2 Galactic foreground: 8.9 x 10^20 cm^-2 Excess significance: <1.6 sigma Photon index: 1.98 (+0.13, -0.09) If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of 1.06, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.015 count s^-1, corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 4.9 x 10^-13 (5.9 x 10^-13) erg cm^-2 s^-1. The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/01059881. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.