TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 13316 SUBJECT: GRB 120521B: Swift-XRT refined Analysis DATE: 12/05/21 21:25:04 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), D.N. Burrows (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), M.C. Stroh (PSU), C. Pagani (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), V. D'Elia (ASDC), A. Maselli (INAF-IASFPA) and J.R. Cummings report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: We have analysed 9.1 ks of XRT data for GRB 120521B (Cummings et al. GCN Circ. 13305), from 125 s to 19.4 ks after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 28 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was given by Osborne et al. (GCN. Circ 13311). The light curve can be modelled with an initial power-law decay with an index of alpha=5.0 (+0.7, -0.6), followed by a break at T+267 s to an alpha of 0.69 (+/-0.07). A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.9 (+0.4, -0.3). The best-fitting absorption column is 1.5 (+0.4, -0.3) x 10^22 cm^-2, in excess of the Galactic value of 2.3 x 10^21 cm^-2 (Kalberla et al. 2005). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor deduced from this spectrum is 6.6 x 10^-11 (1.4 x 10^-10) erg cm^-2 count^-1. A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Total column: 1.5 (+0.4, -0.3) x 10^22 cm^-2 Galactic foreground: 2.3 x 10^21 cm^-2 Excess significance: 6.2 sigma Photon index: 1.9 (+0.4, -0.3) The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00522586. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.