TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 26285 SUBJECT: GRB 191123A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis DATE: 19/11/23 20:52:37 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), B. Sbarufatti (PSU), D.N. Burrows (PSU), J. D. Gropp (PSU), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U. Leicester) and A. Tohuvavohu report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: We have analysed 6.2 ks of XRT data for GRB 191123A (Tohuvavohu et al. GCN Circ. 26279), from 76 s to 18.5 ks after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 540 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was given by Goad et al. (GCN Circ. 26284). The late-time light curve (from T0+5.6 ks) can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay index of alpha=1.00 (+/-0.15). A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.52 (+/-0.05). The best-fitting absorption column is 6.7 (+1.6, -1.5) x 10^20 cm^-2, in excess of the Galactic value of 3.0 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et al. 2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 1.98 (+0.12, -0.11) and a best-fitting absorption column of 4.8 (+2.6, -1.8) x 10^20 cm^-2. The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor deduced from this spectrum is 3.3 x 10^-11 (3.7 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Total column: 4.8 (+2.6, -1.8) x 10^20 cm^-2 Galactic foreground: 3.0 x 10^20 cm^-2 Excess significance: <1.6 sigma Photon index: 1.98 (+0.12, -0.11) If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of 1.00, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.022 count s^-1, corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 7.2 x 10^-13 (8.1 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/00939079. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.