GCN Circular 14536
Subject
GRB 130502A: Enhanced Swift-XRT position
Date
2013-05-03T00:24:15Z (12 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
A.P. Beardmore, P.A. Evans, M.R. Goad and J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team.
Using 511 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 1 UVOT
images for GRB 130502A, 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 = 138.56888, -0.12341 which is equivalent
to:
RA (J2000): 09h 14m 16.53s
Dec (J2000): -00d 07' 24.3"
with an uncertainty of 1.8 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.