GCN Circular 15335
Subject
GRB 131014A: Swift detection of a possible X-ray afterglow
Date
2013-10-14T22:10:16Z (11 years ago)
From
Jamie A. Kennea at PSU/Swift-XRT <kennea@swift.psu.edu>
J. A. Kennea (PSU) and Alex Amaral-Rogers (U Leicester) report on behalf
of the Swift/XRT team
On October 14, 2013 at 17:24 UT, Swift began a series of target of
opportunity observations to cover the region around GRB131014A
(Fitzpatrick et al., GCN #15332, Evans, GCN #15334), approximately 12.3
hours after the burst was detected by Fermi. In Swift/XRT Photon Counting
mode data we detect an uncatalogued point source at the following
location: RA/Dec(J2000) = 100.30064, -19.09711, which is equivalent to:
RA(J2000) = 06h 41m 12.2s
Dec(J2000) = -19d 05m 49.6s
with an estimated uncertainty of 4.4 arc-seconds radius (90% containment).
This position is 11.3' from the LAT position reported by Desiante et al.
(GCN #15333). The source brightness is 0.07 +/- 0.01 XRT count/s. We
cannot yet confirm whether this source is fading.