[vsnet-grb-info 18250] GRB 160714A: Swift-XRT observations

GCN Circulars gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Jul 14 12:19:57 JST 2016


TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  19698
SUBJECT: GRB 160714A: Swift-XRT observations
DATE:    16/07/14 03:19:01 GMT
FROM:    Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9 at leicester.ac.uk>

M. Perri (ASDC), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), 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 160714A at 02:47:12.7 UT,
1677.2 seconds after the BAT trigger. No source was detected in 1.0 ks
of promptly downlinked data, which covered 88% of the BAT error circle.
We are waiting for the full dataset to detect and localise the XRT
counterpart.



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