TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 35650 SUBJECT: GRB 240128A: Swift-XRT observations DATE: 24/01/29 15:53:21 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester pae9@star.le.ac.uk
M. Perri (SSDC & INAF-OAR), S. Dichiara (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), A. Tohuvavohu (U. Toronto), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), V. D'Elia (SSDC & INAF-OAR), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB) and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the MAXI-detected burst GRB 240128A in a series of observations tiled on the sky. The total exposure time is 1.4 ks, distributed over 6 tiles; the maximum exposure at a single sky location was 460 s. The data were collected between T0+46.4 ks and T0+52.4 ks, and are entirely in Photon Counting (PC) mode.
One uncatalogued X-ray source has been detected, it is below the RASS limit and shows no definitive signs of fading. Therefore, at the present time we cannot confirm this as the afterglow. Details of this source are given below:
Source 1: RA (J2000.0): 140.1536 = 09:20:36.87 Dec (J2000.0): -5.2004 = -05:12:01.5 Error: 8.8 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.) Count-rate: 0.0149 [+0.0080, -0.0059] ct s^-1 Distance: 1224 arcsec from MAXI position. Flux: (2.9 [+1.6, -1.2])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
A catalogued source was also detected.
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis of the tiled XRT observations, including a position-specific upper limit calculator, are available at https://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/TILED_GRB00120.
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