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GCN Circular 22948

Subject
GRB 180715A: Swift-XRT observations
Date
2018-07-15T19:54:22Z (6 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
S. Campana (INAF-OAB), G. Cusumano (INAF-IASF PA), 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 180715A at 18:59:52.8 UT,
3167.8 seconds after the BAT trigger. No source was detected in 1.1 ks
of promptly downlinked data, which covered 73% of the BAT error circle.
We are waiting for the full dataset to detect and localise the XRT
counterpart.
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