[vsnet-grb-info 13611] GRB 130627B: Swift-XRT observations

GCN Circulars gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Jun 27 22:53:31 JST 2013


TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  14938
SUBJECT: GRB 130627B: Swift-XRT observations
DATE:    13/06/27 13:53:24 GMT
FROM:    Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9 at leicester.ac.uk>

S. Campana (INAF-OAB), G. Cusumano (INAF-IASF PA), P.A. Evans (U.
Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), D.N. Burrows (PSU) and J.A.
Kennea (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

The XRT began observing the field of GRB 130627B at 12:50:47.2 UT,
2996.6 seconds after the BAT trigger. No source was detected in 1.8 ks
of promptly downlinked data, which covered 96% of the BAT error circle.
We are waiting for the full dataset to detect and localise the XRT
counterpart.


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