GCN Circular 20184
Subject
GRB 161117A: Enhanced Swift-XRT position
Date
2016-11-17T11:45:40Z (8 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
M.R. Goad, J.P. Osborne, A.P. Beardmore and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team.
Using 7318 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 11 UVOT
images for GRB 161117A, we find an astrometrically corrected X-ray
position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment and matching UVOT field sources
to the USNO-B1 catalogue): RA, Dec = 322.05243, -29.61401 which is equivalent
to:
RA (J2000): 21h 28m 12.58s
Dec (J2000): -29d 36' 50.4"
with an uncertainty of 1.4 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence).
This position may be improved as more data are received. The latest
position can be viewed at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_positions. Position
enhancement is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401) and Evans
et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177).
This circular was automatically generated, and is an official product of the
Swift-XRT team.