GCN Circular 3191
Subject
GRB 050408: Swift XRT Position
Date
2005-04-08T19:24:18Z (19 years ago)
From
Jamie A. Kennea at PSU/Swift-XRT <kennea@astro.psu.edu>
A. A. Wells, A. F. Abbey, J. P. Osborne, A. P. Beardmore, (U. Leicester),
J. A. Kennea, M. Chester, D. N. Burrows, J. A. Nousek (PSU), M. Capalbi,
F. Tamburelli (ASDC), P. Romano, C. Pagani, G. Chincarini (INAF-OAB), G.
Cusumano, V. La Parola, (INAF-IASF/Palermo), D. Lamb (U. Chicago), G.
Ricker (MIT) and N. Gehrels (GSFC), report on behalf of the Swift XRT
team:
The Swift XRT observed the field of the HETE burst GRB050408 (Sakamoto
etal. 2005, GCN 3189) at 17:05:18 UT. We find a bright fading uncataloged
X-ray source located at:
RA(J2000) = 12:02:17.4,
Dec(J2000) = +10:51:03
We estimate an uncertainty of about 6 arcseconds. This source is located
78 arcseconds from the HETE SXC-Ground position in GCN 3189.