[vsnet-grb-info 19223] GRB 170318B: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  20909
SUBJECT: GRB 170318B: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position
DATE:    17/03/18 16:17:21 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  promptly downlinked XRT event data for GRB 170318B, we find an
enhanced XRT position of the afterglow: RA, Dec: 284.3062, 6.2994 which
is equivalent to:
   RA (J2000)  = 18 57 13.49
   Dec (J2000) = +06 17 57.9
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/743086.

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.