GCN Circular 2996
Subject
GRB050126: Updated Swift XRT Position
Date
2005-01-28T19:34:04Z (20 years ago)
From
Gianpiero Tagliaferri at OAB-INAF <taglia@merate.mi.astro.it>
S. Campana, G. Chincarini, A. Moretti, C. Pagani, P. Romano, G.
Tagliaferri (OAB),
D. N. Burrows, J. E. Hill, J. A. Kennea, D. Morris, J. A. Nousek (PSU),
M. Capalbi, P. Giommi, M. Perri, (ASDC/ASI), G. Cusumano, V. Mangano
(IASF/Pa),
J. Osborne, K. Page, M. Goad, A. Beardmore, A. Wells (U. Leicester), N.
Gehrels,
N. White, L. Angelini, F. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), K. McGowan, K. Mason
(MSSL)
report on behalf of the Swift XRT team:
We have obtained a new XRT position, using the ground-based pipeline
processing software, including stellar aberration correction. The analysis
is based on 4 different orbits and the source is detected each time.
Although
in the last orbits we have only few counts the derived coordinates are very
consistent and differ by less than 5 arcseconds.
The new position for the X-ray afterglow is:
RA(J2000) = 18:32:27.0,
Dec(J2000) = +42 22 13.5
We estimate a remaining uncertainty of about 8 arcseconds, including a
systematic error of about 5 arcseconds due to residual alignment offsets
that have not been fully calibrated yet.