[vsnet-grb-info 3207] GRB060501: Swift XRT position
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Tue May 2 00:05:49 JST 2006
TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER: 5042
SUBJECT: GRB060501: Swift XRT position
DATE: 06/05/01 15:05:02 GMT
FROM: Eleonora Troja at INAF-IASFPA <nora at ifc.inaf.it>
V. La Parola (INAF-IASFPa), E. Troja (INAF-IASFPa),
G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), D. N. Burrows (PSU) and
J. Kennea (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift XRT Team:
The XRT attempted to centroid on GRB 060501 at 09:10:08 UT,
3309 s after the burst. However, at this late time the burst
was too faint for an on-board detection in the 2.5 s centroiding
image, and the XRT switched immediately to PC mode.
Using the first 4.5 ksec data set from the Malindi download,
we find a single weak previously uncatalogued source within the
BAT error box at:
RA: 21 53 29.9 (J2000)
Dec: +43 59 53.4 (J2000)
with 5.5 arcsec uncertainty (90% confinement).
The estimated flux is 2.6e-13 erg/sec/cm2, assuming Galactic
absorption and a power law spectrum with photon index 2.0.
This source is 58 arcsec from the BAT on-board position.
The available data do not allow us to establish if this
source is fading.
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