GCN Circular 11485
Subject
GRB 101224A - UVOT-enhanced XRT position
Date
2010-12-24T07:57:45Z (13 years ago)
From
Kim Page at U.of Leicester <kpa@star.le.ac.uk>
K.L. Page, P.A. Evans and M.R. Goad (U. Leicester) report
on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
Upon analysis of the first downlink of Swift-XRT data for GRB 101224A, a
faint source was detected within the BAT error circle (Krimm et al., GCN
Circ. 11484). With the current data, it cannot be confirmed whether this
source is fading.
Using 1245 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 1 UVOT image, we find an
astrometrically corrected X-ray position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment and
matching UVOT field sources to the USNO-B1 catalogue): RA, Dec =
285.92460, 45.71350 which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000): 19 03 41.91
Dec (J2000): +45 42 48.5
with an uncertainty of 3.2 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence).
This position may be improved as more data are received. The latest
position can be viewed at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_positions. Position
enhancement is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401) and Evans
et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177).
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.