GCN Circular 23332

P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), D. N. Burrows (PSU),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), B. Sbarufatti (PSU) and A. Tohuvavohu (PSU)
report on behalf of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Team:

At 02:39:29 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and
located GRB 181013A (trigger=866783).  Swift slewed immediately to the burst. 
The BAT on-board calculated location is 
RA, Dec 207.601, +40.179, which is 
   RA(J2000)  =  13h 50m 24s
   Dec(J2000) = +40d 10' 43"
with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including 
systematic uncertainty).  The BAT light curve shows several peaks
with a duration of about 25 sec.  The peak count rate
was ~700 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~1 sec after the trigger. 

The XRT began observing the field at 02:41:12.7 UT, 103.1 seconds after
the BAT trigger. No source was detected in 1.9 ks of promptly
downlinked data, which covered 96% of the BAT error circle. We are
waiting for the full dataset to detect and localise the XRT
counterpart. 

UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 150 seconds with the White filter
starting 106 seconds after the BAT trigger. No credible afterglow candidate has
been found in the initial data products. The 2.7'x2.7' sub-image covers 25% of
the BAT error circle. The typical 3-sigma upper limit has been about 19.6 mag. 
The 8'x8' region for the list of sources generated on-board covers 100% of the
BAT error circle. The list of sources is typically complete to about 18 mag. No
correction has been made for the expected extinction corresponding to E(B-V) of
0.01. 

Burst Advocate for this burst is P. D'Avanzo (paolo.davanzo AT brera.inaf.it). 
Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information
regarding Swift followup of this burst. In extremely urgent cases, after
trying the Burst Advocate, you can contact the Swift PI by phone (see
Swift TOO web site for information: http://www.swift.psu.edu/too.html.)