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GCN Circular 35074

Subject
GRB 231117A: Enhanced Swift-XRT position
Date
2023-11-17T11:40:38Z (a year ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@star.le.ac.uk>
Via
email
A.P. Beardmore, P.A. Evans, M.R. Goad and J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester) 
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team.

Using 2459 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 3 UVOT
images for GRB 231117A, we find an astrometrically corrected X-ray
position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment and matching UVOT field sources
to the USNO-B1 catalogue): RA, Dec = 332.38988, +13.52255 which is equivalent
to:

RA (J2000): 22h 09m 33.57s
Dec (J2000): +13d 31' 21.2"

with an uncertainty of 2.0 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence).

This position may be improved as more data are received. The latest
position can be viewed at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_positions. Position
enhancement is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401) and Evans
et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177).

This circular was automatically generated, and is an official product of the
Swift-XRT team.

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