GCN Circular 11085
Subject
Swift-BAT trigger 431582 likely is IGR J17464-2811
Date
2010-08-13T23:41:28Z (15 years ago)
From
Jonathan Gelbord at PSU/Swift <jgelbord@astro.psu.edu>
J. M. Gelbord (PSU) reports on behalf of the Swift Team:
At 21:03:29 UT BAT triggered on a source near the Galactic center
(trigger # 431582). The slew was delayed by 51.8 minutes due to the
Earth limb observing constraint.
At the time of the BAT trigger, the source was identified by both the
on-board BAT catalog and the GCN ground catalog as IGR J17475-2822.
However, preliminary analysis of the XRT data taken an hour after the
trigger reveals two other point sources within an 8 x 8 arcmin region
centered on the BAT position. These sources are consistent with the
positions of IGR J17464-2811 and 1RXS J174704.6-280843. These sources
are 0.8 and 3.5 arcmin from the BAT position, respectively, with IGR
J17464-2811 the brighter source by about a factor of 6.
We consider IGR J17464-2811 to be the likely counterpart of the BAT
trigger. This source is not in either the on-board BAT catalog or the
GCN ground catalog. If it had been, it would have been the counterpart
identified at the time of the trigger and not IGR J17475-2822.