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GCN Circular 35251

Subject
GRB 231129C: Swift-XRT afterglow detection
Date
2023-12-02T14:30:18Z (a year ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@star.le.ac.uk>
Via
email
J. D. Gropp (PSU), S. Dichiara (PSU), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P.
Beardmore (U. Leicester), M.G. Bernardini (INAF-OAB), E. Ambrosi 
(INAF-IASFPA) , M. Capalbi (INAF-IASFPA), J.A. Kennea (PSU) and P.A.
Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

Swift-XRT has conducted further observations of the field of the
Fermi/GBM-detected burst GRB 231129C. The observations now extend from
T0+34.8 ks to T0+172.6 ks. The source previously reported, "Source 2",
is believed to be the afterglow.  The position of this source is RA,
Dec=11.1769, -81.9936 which is equivalent to:

RA (J2000): 00:44:42.45
Dec(J2000): -81:59:37.0

with an uncertainty of 9.5 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence).  This
position is 22.4 arcmin from the Fermi/GBM position.  We cannot
determine at the present time whether the source is fading.

The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00021633.
The results of the full analysis of the tiled XRT observations are
available at https://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/TILED_GRB00117.

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


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