[vsnet-grb-info 17306] GRB 151205C: Swift-XRT observations

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  18671
SUBJECT: GRB 151205C: Swift-XRT observations
DATE:    15/12/06 22:48:06 GMT
FROM:    Andrea Melandri at INAF-OAB  <andrea.melandri at brera.inaf.it>

A. Melandri, P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB) A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), J.A. Kennea
(PSU), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB/PSU), D.N. Burrows (PSU), K.L. Page (U.
Leicester), C. Pagani (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), A.
Maselli  (INAF-IASFPA) and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) report on behalf
of the Swift-XRT team:

Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the MAXI-detected
burst GRB 151205C (Nakajima et al. GCN Circ. 18666) in a series of
observations tiled on the sky. The total exposure time is 2.5 ks,
distributed over 7 tiles; the maximum exposure at a single sky location
was 790 s. The data were collected between T0+11.1 ks and T0+22.8 ks,
and are entirely in Photon Counting (PC) mode. 

No X-ray sources have been detected. The 3-sigma upper limit in the
field (not including the regions where the tiles overlap) ranges from
~0.02 to ~0.03 ct s^-1, corresponding to a 0.3-10 keV observed flux of
7.6e-13 to 1.1e-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (assuming a typical GRB spectrum).

The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis of the tiled XRT
observations, including a position-specific upper limit calculator, are
available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/TILED_GRB00049.

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