TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 39248 SUBJECT: GRB 250206A: Swift-XRT observations DATE: 25/02/09 11:57:12 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester pae9@star.le.ac.uk
T. Sbarrato (INAF-OAB), M. A. Williams (PSU), S. Dichiara (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), M.G. Bernardini (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 Fermi/LAT-detected burst GRB 250206A in a series of observations tiled on the sky. The total exposure time is 4.3 ks, distributed over 10 tiles; the maximum exposure at a single sky location in the tiling was 978 s. The data were collected between T0+162.0 ks and T0+179.3 ks, and are entirely in Photon Counting (PC) mode.
Three uncatalogued X-ray sources have been detected, however none of them is above the RASS limit or shows definitive signs of fading. Therefore, at the present time we cannot identify which, if any, is the afterglow. Details of these sources are given below:
Source 1: RA (J2000.0): 224.6223 = 14:58:29.34 Dec (J2000.0): -62.7146 = -62:42:52.5 Error: 8.2 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.) Count-rate: 0.0205 [+0.0125, -0.0089] ct s^-1 Distance: 1996 arcsec from Fermi/LAT position.
Source 3: RA (J2000.0): 225.3635 = 15:01:27.23 Dec (J2000.0): -62.3210 = -62:19:15.4 Error: 17.4 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.) Count-rate: (7.8 [+5.0, -3.6])e-3 ct s^-1 Distance: 236 arcsec from Fermi/LAT position.
Source 4: RA (J2000.0): 225.7331 = 15:02:55.95 Dec (J2000.0): -62.5032 = -62:30:11.4 Error: 8.8 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.) Count-rate: (9.0 [+5.1, -3.7])e-3 ct s^-1 Distance: 1124 arcsec from Fermi/LAT position.
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_GRB00132.
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