[vsnet-grb-info 18012] GRB 160525B: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position

GCN Circulars gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed May 25 19:53:00 JST 2016


TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  19460
SUBJECT: GRB 160525B: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position
DATE:    16/05/25 10:50:45 GMT
FROM:    Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9 at leicester.ac.uk>

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

Using 1.9 ks of promptly downlinked XRT event data for GRB 160525B, we
find an enhanced XRT position of the afterglow: RA, Dec: 149.3845,
51.2064 which is equivalent to:
   RA (J2000)  = 09 57 32.28
   Dec (J2000) = +51 12 23.0
with an uncertainty of 2.1 arcseconds (radius, 90% confidence).
Analysis of the promptly available data is online at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/sper/687522.

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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