[vsnet-grb-info 12419] GRB 120922A: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position

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Sun Sep 23 08:28:49 JST 2012


TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  13794
SUBJECT: GRB 120922A: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position
DATE:    12/09/22 23:28:41 GMT
FROM:    Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9 at star.le.ac.uk>

P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

Using  promptly downlinked XRT event data for GRB 120922A, we find an
enhanced XRT position of the afterglow: RA, Dec: 234.7483, -20.1821
which is equivalent to:
   RA (J2000)  = 15 38 59.60
   Dec (J2000) = -20 10 55.4
with an uncertainty of 2.0 arcseconds (radius, 90% confidence).
Analysis of the promptly available data is online at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/sper/534394.

Position enhancement is is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476,
1401) and Evans et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177).

This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.


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