[vsnet-grb-info 21804] GRB 190219A: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position

GCN Circulars gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Feb 20 05:20:19 JST 2019


TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  23903
SUBJECT: GRB 190219A: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position
DATE:    19/02/19 20:19:17 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 190219A, we find an
enhanced XRT position of the afterglow: RA, Dec: 189.6264, 76.6128
which is equivalent to:
   RA (J2000)  = 12 38 30.33
   Dec (J2000) = +76 36 46.2
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/889748.

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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