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GCN Circular 34081

Subject
GRB 230623A: Swift-XRT observations
Date
2023-06-26T13:41:57Z (a year ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@star.le.ac.uk>
S. Dichiara (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), A. Tohuvavohu (U. Toronto), J.P.
Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U.
Leicester), E. Ambrosi	(INAF-IASFPA) , M. Capalbi (INAF-IASFPA), M.
Perri (SSDC & INAF-OAR) and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf
of the Swift-XRT team:

Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the MAXI-detected
burst GRB 230623A in a series of observations tiled on the sky. The
total exposure time is 1.8 ks, distributed over 7 tiles; the maximum
exposure at a single sky location was 807 s. The data were collected
between T0+19.9 ks and T0+38.0 ks, and are entirely in Photon Counting
(PC) mode. 

No X-ray sources have been detected. The 3-sigma upper limit in the
field (not including the regions where the tiles overlap) ranges from
~0.02 to ~0.23 ct s^-1, corresponding to a 0.3-10 keV observed flux of
6.1e-13 to 9.1e-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (assuming a typical GRB spectrum).

The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis of the tiled XRT
observations, including a position-specific upper limit calculator, are
available at https://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/TILED_GRB00113.

This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.


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