GCN Circular 35411
Subject
GRB 231220A: Swift-XRT follow-up observations
Date
2023-12-21T15:25:45Z (5 months ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@star.le.ac.uk>
Via
email
C. Salvaggio (INAF-OAB), M. Ferro (INAF-OAB), S. Dichiara (PSU), J.A.
Kennea (PSU), A. Tohuvavohu (U. Toronto), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester),
K.L. Page (U. Leicester), R. Brivio (INAF-OAB) and P.A. Evans (U.
Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the GUANO-detected
burst GRB 231220A, collecting 3.6 ks of Photon Counting (PC) mode data
between T0+27.0 ks and T0+39.5 ks.
No candidate counterpart was detected, with an upper limit of
2.2×10-3 ct s-1 at the best BAT position (GCN 35409).
One uncatalogued X-ray source was flagged as spurious
after manual inspection.
The results of the full analysis of the XRT observations are available
at https://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/00021638.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.