GCN Circular 16661
Subject
GRB 140801A: Swift-XRT observations
Event
Date
2014-08-02T14:20:53Z (12 years ago)
From
Alessandro Maselli at INAF/IASF Palermo <maselli@ifc.inaf.it>
A. Maselli and M. De Pasquale (INAF-IASFPA) report on behalf of the
Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed 2.0 ks of XRT data for the FERMI/GBM detected burst GRB
140801A (Pelassa, GCN Circ. 16658), from 36.4 ks to 48.0 ks after the
GBM trigger. The data are entirely in Photon Counting (PC) mode. An
X-ray source is found at the position of the optical transient detected
by MASTER (Gorbovskoy et al., GCN Circ. 16653). Using 1893 s of PC mode
data and 2 UVOT images, we find an enhanced XRT position (using the
XRT-UVOT alignment and matching UVOT field sources to the USNO-B1
catalogue): RA, Dec = 44.06877, +30.93799 which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000): 02h 56m 16.50s
Dec(J2000): +30d 56' 16.8"
with an uncertainty of 2.5 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence). This
position is 0.8 arcsec from the MASTER position. We believe that this
source, which has a mean count rate of 2.3e-02 ct/sec, is the X-ray
afterglow of GRB 140801A but further observations are needed to
determine a decaying behaviour.
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00020402.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.