Skip to main content
New Announcement Feature, Code of Conduct, Circular Revisions. See news and announcements

GCN Circular 19698

Subject
GRB 160714A: Swift-XRT observations
Date
2016-07-14T03:19:01Z (8 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
M. Perri (ASDC), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), P.A. Evans (U. Leicester),
J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), D.N. Burrows (PSU) and J.A. Kennea (PSU)
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

The XRT began observing the field of GRB 160714A at 02:47:12.7 UT,
1677.2 seconds after the BAT trigger. No source was detected in 1.0 ks
of promptly downlinked data, which covered 88% of the BAT error circle.
We are waiting for the full dataset to detect and localise the XRT
counterpart.
Looking for U.S. government information and services? Visit USA.gov