GCN Circular 16665
Subject
GRB140801A: Swift/XRT further observations
Event
Date
2014-08-03T14:05:25Z (12 years ago)
From
Alessandro Maselli at INAF/IASF Palermo <maselli@ifc.inaf.it>
A. Maselli, M. De Pasquale (INAF-IASFPA) and E. Troja (NASA/GSFC/UMCP)
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We report on further Swift XRT observations in the field of the
FERMI/GBM-discovered GRB 140801A (Pelassa, GCN Circ. 16658). A new
exposure of 2.0 ks has been obtained, 123 ks after the Fermi/GBM
trigger. The X-ray counterpart reported by Maselli & De Pasquale (GCN
Circ. 16661) is still detected at a count rate of 9.9 (+/-2.5) x 10^-3
cts s^-1. This latest measurement corresponds to a decay slope of 0.8
(+0.5, -0.4): thus we confirm that this source is the afterglow of GRB
140801A.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.