[vsnet-grb-info 15929] GRB 141215A: further Swift-XRT observations and afterglow detection
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue Dec 23 01:56:49 JST 2014
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 17217
SUBJECT: GRB 141215A: further Swift-XRT observations and afterglow detection
DATE: 14/12/22 16:56:41 GMT
FROM: Valerio D'Elia at ASDC <delia at asdc.asi.it>
V. D'Elia (ASDC), L. Izzo (URoma/ICRA) & M. M. Chester (PSU) report on
behalf of the Swift team
Swift-XRT observed again the field of the IPN GRB 141215A (Hurley et
 al. GCN 17186). The observation started on 2014-12-21 at 01:22UT,
i.e., ~5.5 days after the burst detection. Source #1 (that with a
2MASS counterpart) and source #3 (which has a DSS counterpart)
reported by D'Elia & Izzo (GCN 17190) are still detected with a count
rate comparable to that of the first exposure and are thus not related
with the GRB. On the other hand, source #2 faded considerably with
respect to the first observation. Its decay index is alpha~1, which is
consistent with a typical afterglow behavior. We thus conclude that
source #2 is the X-ray counterpart of GRB 141215A.
Swift/UVOT observed the initial two tiled fields for GRB 141215A
beginning ~100 ks after the IPN trigger. No optical counterpart was
detected for Swift/XRT Source #2 (D'Elia et al. GCN Circ. 17190).
Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) are:
Source #2:
Filter         T_start(s)   T_stop(s)      Exp(s)      UL
white          118715       125192         1026      > 21.35
v              119529       120370          824      > 19.39
u              117902       124472         1580      > 20.85
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic
extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.176 in the direction of
the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).
Details on the XRT analysis can be found at:
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/TILED_GRB00035/
This is an official product of the Swift team.
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