TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 40027 SUBJECT: GRB 250402A: Swift-XRT observations DATE: 25/04/03 16:01:19 GMT FROM: Simone Dichiara at Pennsylvania State University sbd5667@psu.edu
S. Dichiara (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB), K.L. Page and P.A. Evans (U.Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed 2.4 ks of XRT data for the SVOM/ECLAIRs-detected burst GRB 250402A (SVOM trigger sb25040203; Chen et al., GCN circ. 40014), from T0+49.2 ks to T0+51.5 ks after the SVOM/ECLAIRs trigger. The data are entirely in Photon Counting (PC) mode.
We find an uncatalogued X-ray source consistent with the X-ray counterpart identified by SVOM/MXT (Maggi et al., GCN circ. 40019) and the optical counterpart (Xin et al., GCN 40015, Pérez-Fournon et al., GCN 40020, Schneider et al., GCN 40022, Magnani et al., GCN 40023). We note that the source is fading compared to the flux reported by previous MXT observations (Maggi et al., GCN circ. 40019). Details of this source are given below:
Source 1: RA (J2000.0): 213.4089 = 14:13:38.13 Dec (J2000.0): -5.9302 = -05:55:48.5 Error: 3.4 arcsec (radius, 90% conf. [Enhanced position]) Count-rate:0.045 (±0.012) ct s-1 Flux: 1.9 (±0.5) ×10-12 erg cm-2 s-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
This XRT position is 1.07 arcsec away from the optical position. The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis of the XRT observations, including a position-specific upper limit calculator, are available at https://www.swift.ac.uk/SVOM/SVOM_FIELD00009/.
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