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GCN Circular 16348

Subject
GRB 140523A: further Swift-XRT observations
Date
2014-06-02T20:59:57Z (11 years ago)
From
Valerio D'Elia at ASDC <delia@asdc.asi.it>
V. D'Elia (ASDC) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

We have observed again the field of the Fermi GRB 140523A (von Kienlin  
and Connaughton, GCN 16321; Vianello et al. GCN 16322), to search for  
variability of the X-ray afterglow candidates.
In the 5 ks of XRT data acquired, starting on 2014-05-31 at 02:33:06  
UT (i.e., ~ 8 days after the burst), all X-ray candidates are still  
detected with no hint of afterglow-like variability behavior.
We thus conclude that none of the candidate sources is the X-ray  
afterglow of GRB 140523A.

More details about this analysis can be found on:
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/TILED_GRB00026
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