GCN Circular 12562
Subject
GRB 111117A: Chandra ToO observation scheduled
Date
2011-11-17T21:07:23Z (12 years ago)
From
Takanori Sakamoto at NASA/GSFC <takanori@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
T. Sakamoto (GSFC/UMBC), N. Gehrels (GSFC), E. Troja (NASA/GSFC/ORAU),
J. Norris (BSU), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. L. Racusin (GSFC),
N. Kawai (Tokyo Tech), A. Fruchter (STScI)
The Chandra ToO observation has been approved for GRB 111117A
(Mangano et al., GCN Circ. 12559; Sakamoto et al., GCN Circ. 12561).
The observation has been tentatively scheduled on November 20 12:48 UT
for 20 ksec.
This is the approved ToO program in AO-13 to identify a Swift short GRB
afterglow in X-rays by a sub-arcsecond position from Chandra
(PI: Sakamoto, #501616). The main goal is to identify the host galaxy
of GRB 111117A by the sub-arcsecond X-ray position which is very likely
to be able to obtain from the Chandra observation. Therefore, we strongly
encourage deep optical observations of the field.