GCN Circular 3378
Subject
Swift-BAT detection of GRB 050507
Date
2005-05-07T23:35:07Z (19 years ago)
From
Andrew Levan at U.of Leicester <anl@star.le.ac.uk>
A. Levan (Leicester), L Barbier (GSFC), A. Blustin (MSSL),
C. Markwardt (GSFC), D. Palmer (LANL) on behalf of the Swift team.
At 22:43:18 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and
located on-board GRB050507 (trigger #118248). The BAT on-board
calculated location is RA, dec 48.055,-11.073 (J2000) with an
uncertainty of 4 arcmin (radius, 3-sigma, including estimated
systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve showed a spikey burst
structure with a duration of about 20 seconds. The peak
count rate measured by BAT was about 800 counts/sec in the 15 -
350 keV band.
Because this burst is only 28 degrees from the sun, the spacecraft
will not slew to this burst.