GCN Circular 16254
Subject
Swift Observations of GRB 140508A
Event
Date
2014-05-13T05:30:00Z (12 years ago)
From
Alex Amaral-Rogers at U.of Leicester <aar14@leicester.ac.uk>
Alex Amaral-Rogers reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
Swift has reobserved the field of GRB 140508A for a further 4.6 ks from 253.9 ks
to 288.1 ks after the Fermi/GBM trigger.
The source reported in GCN 16232 has been observed in the XRT to be fading;
consistent with a power-law decay with an index of alpha = 1.48 (+0.15, -0.14).
We now confirm the the source is the afterglow of GRB 140508A.