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GCN Circular 3634

Subject
GRB050717: Swift XRT position
Date
2005-07-17T12:59:54Z (19 years ago)
From
Jamie A. Kennea at PSU/Swift-XRT <kennea@astro.psu.edu>
J.A. Kennea, D.N. Burrows (PSU), C. Hurkett, K. Page (U. Leicester) and
N. Gehrels (GSFC) report for the Swift XRT Team:

We have performed an initial analysis of the downlinked XRT data from 
GRB050717 (GCN 3633), and have found a fading, previously uncatalogued, 
point source in the field at the following coordinates:

RA(J2000):  14:17:24.9,
Dec(J2000): -50:32:13.2

with an estimated uncertainty of 6 arcseconds radius (90% containment).
This source lies 50 arcseconds from the BAT position reported in GCN 3633.
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