[vsnet-grb-info 14960] Swift Observations of GRB 140508A

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  16254
SUBJECT: Swift Observations of GRB 140508A
DATE:    14/05/13 05:30:00 GMT
FROM:    Alex Amaral-Rogers at U.of Leicester  <aar14 at leicester.ac.uk>

Alex Amaral-Rogers reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

Swift has reobserved the field of GRB 140508A for a further 4.6 ks from 253.9 ks
to 288.1 ks after the Fermi/GBM trigger.

The source reported in GCN 16232 has been observed in the XRT to be fading;
consistent with a power-law decay with an index of alpha = 1.48 (+0.15, -0.14).

We now confirm the the source is the afterglow of GRB 140508A.