GCN Circular 11984
Subject
GRB 110428A : Swift-XRT observations
Date
2011-04-29T14:46:44Z (13 years ago)
From
Andrea Melandri at INAF-OAB <andrea.melandri@brera.inaf.it>
A. Melandri, P. D'Avanzo, R. Margutti (INAF-OAB), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-
OAB/IASFPA) and M. Stamatikos (OSU/NASA/GSFC) report on behalf of the
Swift Team:
At 00:47 UT, April 29th, 2011, Swift began a Target of Opportunity
observation of the Fermi GBM/LAT discovered burst GRB 110428A
(Vasileiou et al. GCN 11982), ~55.6 ks after the Fermi detection.
In 4.8 ks of Photon Counting mode data, we detect two sources within
the Fermi-LAT error circle (0.15 deg radius, 68% CL) at the following
positions:
Source 1:
RA(J2000): 00 21 50.47
Dec(J2000): +64 48 52.4
with an uncertainty of 4.6 arcsec.
Source 2:
RA(J2000): 00 22 22.22
Dec(J2000): +64:50:57.1
with an uncertainty of 7.1 arcsec.
Uncertainty radii are given at 90% containment.
We note that the position of Source 1 is consistent with a known
ROSAT source (1RXS J002150.5+644850) also present in the DSS. Source
2 is an uncatalogued object.
The two sources have a count rate of about (1.2e-2 +/- 1.8e-3) and
(2.9e-3 +/- 9.1e-4) cts/s, respectively. It is not possible to
determine whether these sources are fading given the current
statistics. Further Swift-XRT observations of the field are planned.
We encourage ground-based follow-up observations.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.