GCN Circular 15281
Subject
GRB 131001A detected in ground analysis of Swift-BAT data
Date
2013-10-02T03:40:26Z (12 years ago)
From
Jay R. Cummings at NASA/GSFC/Swift <james.r.cummings@nasa.gov>
J. R. Cummings (UMBC/GSFC) reports on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:
At 2013-10-01T05:37:24, while Swift was slewing, GRB 131001A occurred. The
BAT lightcurve shows a single 5-second long FRED peak. In a mosaic of images
created from BAT slew data, a significant source was found at
RA, Dec 8.302, +25.557, which is
RA (J2000) 00h 33m 12.4s
Dec (J2000) 25d 33' 27"
with an estimated 90% uncertainty radius of 1.8 arcmin.
A Swift TOO has been requested to locate the X-ray afterglow, and approved with
the source ID number20297. Observations are in progress.