TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 32790 SUBJECT: GRB 221017A: Swift ToO observations DATE: 22/10/18 13:50:15 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester pae9@leicester.ac.uk
P. A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift team:
Swift has initiated a ToO observation of the MAXI GRB 221017A. Automated analysis of the XRT data will be presented online at https://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/00021529
Any uncatalogued X-ray sources detected in this analysis will be reported on this website and via GCN COUNTERPART notices. These are not necessarily related to the MAXI event. Any X-ray source considered to be a probable afterglow candidate will be reported via a GCN Circular after manual consideration.
Details of the XRT automated analysis methods are detailed in Evans et al. (2007, A&A, 469, 379; 2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177 and 2014, ApJS, 210, 8).
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.