GCN Circular 13515
Subject
GRB 120724A: Enhanced Swift-XRT position
Date
2012-07-24T19:24:49Z (12 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@star.le.ac.uk>
M.R. Goad, J.P. Osborne, A.P. Beardmore and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team.
Using 2299 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 4 UVOT
images for GRB 120724A, 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 = 245.18020, +3.50793 which is equivalent
to:
RA (J2000): 16h 20m 43.25s
Dec (J2000): +03d 30' 28.6"
with an uncertainty of 1.5 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 was automatically generated, and is an official product of the
Swift-XRT team.