TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 12348 SUBJECT: GRB 110915B: XRT afterglow candidate DATE: 11/09/16 12:05:21 GMT FROM: Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), J. K. Cannizzo (NASA/UMBC), P.A. Evans and M.R. Goad (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: At 04:36:53 UT, September 16, 2011, Swift began a Target of Opportunity observation of the AGILE discovered burst GRB 110915B (Del Monte et al. et al. GCN Circ. 12341). We have analysed 2.1 ks of XRT data, from 36.8 ks to 43.2 ks after the AGILE trigger. The data are entirely in Photon Counting (PC) mode. An uncatalogued X-ray source is detected within the AGILE error circle. Using 2132 s of PC mode data and 3 UVOT images, we find an enhanced XRT position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment and matching UVOT field sources to the USNO-B1 catalogue): RA, Dec = 77.55470, +1.93280 which is equivalent to: RA (J2000): 05h 10m 13.13s Dec(J2000): +01d 55' 57.9" with an uncertainty of 1.8 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence). This position is 37 arcsec from the AGILE position. The light curve is consistent with a constant source of mean count rate 7.1e-02 ct/sec. A power-law fit gives an index of -0.3 (+2.3, -1.1). A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.85 (+0.36, -0.27). The best-fitting absorption column is 9 (+10, -1) x 10^20 cm^-2, consistent with the Galactic value of 8.5 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Kalberla et al. 2005). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor deduced from this spectrum is 3.9 x 10^-11 (4.8 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Total column: 9 (+10, -1) x 10^20 cm^-2 Galactic foreground: 8.5 x 10^20 cm^-2 Excess significance: <1.6 sigma Photon index: 1.85 (+0.36, -0.27) The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00020185. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.