TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 11355 SUBJECT: GRB 101017A: Swift XRT refined analysis DATE: 10/10/19 01:44:43 GMT FROM: Dirk Grupe at PSU/Swift-XRT D. Grupe and M. Siegel (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: We have analyzed 21.8 ks of XRT data for GRB 101017A (Siegel et al. GCN Circ. 11345), from 87 s to 82800 s after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 210 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The light curve can be modeled with a multiple broken power-law model. After an initial decay slope of 2.22+/-0.08 the light curve steepens at T_break=260+40-20 s with a slope of 3.85+1.13-0.34 and flattens again at T+527+52-69 s with a decay slope of 1.35+/-0.08. A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.38+/-0.06 and an absorption column density of 20.85+2.48-2.31 x 10^20 cm^-2 which is in excess of the Galactic column density of 7.69 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Kalberla et al. 2005). A fit to the pc mode data shows that the spectrum has steepened with a photon spectral index of 2.08+/-0.20. The absorption column density of this fit is consistent with the result from the WT data. The counts to 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor deduced from the WT spectrum is 6.63 x 10^-11 and 7.70 x 10^-11 erg cm^-2 count^-1 for the observed and the absorption corrected count rates. For the pc mode we found conversion factors are 5.00 x 10^-11 and 7.57 x 10^-11 ergs cm^-2 counts^-1, respectively. If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of 1.35, the count rate at T+48 hours will be in the order of 3 x 10^-4 count s^-1, corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 1.5 x 10^-14 (2.3 x 10^-14) erg cm^-2 s^-1. The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00436429. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.