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GCN Circular 3624

Subject
GRB050716: Correction to sign in XRT coordinate
Date
2005-07-16T14:10:33Z (19 years ago)
From
Jamie A. Kennea at PSU/Swift-XRT <kennea@astro.psu.edu>
J. Kennea, D. Burrows (PSU), E.Rol, C. Hurkett, K. Page (U. Leicester) and 
N. Gehrels (GSFC) report for the Swift/XRT Team:

In GCN 3623 we reported an incorrect sign on the declination of the XRT 
position for GRB050716. The corrected position is:

RA:    22h 34m 20.4s (J2000),
Dec:  +38d 40' 56.7" (J2000).

With an estimated uncertainty of 6 arcseconds radius (90% containment).
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