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GCN Circular 32344

Subject
GRB 220708A: Swift-XRT observations
Date
2022-07-08T06:02:25Z (2 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
M. Perri (SSDC & INAF-OAR), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), 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 220708A at 05:20:39.0 UT,
2469.3 seconds after the BAT trigger. No source was detected in 767 s
of promptly downlinked data, which covered 94% of the BAT error circle.
We are waiting for the full dataset to detect and localise the XRT
counterpart.
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