[vsnet-grb-info 11257] GRB 111212A: Swift-XRT observations
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Mon Dec 12 20:24:05 JST 2011
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 12669
SUBJECT: GRB 111212A: Swift-XRT observations
DATE: 11/12/12 11:24:01 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9 at star.le.ac.uk>
J.A. Kennea (PSU), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), S. Campana (INAF-OAB),
P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester) and D.N. Burrows
(PSU) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
The XRT began observing the field of GRB 111212A at 10:17:35.0 UT,
3267.9 seconds after the BAT trigger. Using promptly downlinked data we
find an uncatalogued X-ray source located at RA, Dec 310.43423,
-68.61205 which is equivalent to:
RA(J2000) = 20h 41m 44.22s
Dec(J2000) = -68d 36' 43.4"
with an uncertainty of 3.5 arcseconds (radius, 90% containment). This
location is 43 arcseconds from the BAT onboard position, within the BAT
error circle. This position may be improved as more data are received;
the latest position is available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/sper.
A power-law fit to a spectrum formed from promptly downlinked event
data gives a column density in excess of the Galactic value (3.07 x
10^20 cm^-2, Kalberla et al. 2005), with an excess column of 2
(+0.94/-0.88) x 10^21 cm^-2 (90% confidence).
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