GCN Circular 38025
Subject
GRB 241101A: Swift detection of a burst
Date
2024-11-01T05:57:09Z (a month ago)
From
Simone Dichiara at Pennsylvania State University <sbd5667@psu.edu>
Via
email
T. M. Parsotan (GSFC), S. Dichiara (PSU), R. Gupta (NASA GSFC),
T. Sakamoto (AGU) and T. Sbarrato (INAF-OAB) report on behalf of the
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Team:
At 05:41:45 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and
located GRB 241101A (trigger=1264304). The BAT on-board calculated location is
RA, Dec 204.333, +28.264 which is
RA(J2000) = 13h 37m 20s
Dec(J2000) = +28d 15' 49"
with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including
systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve showed a double-peaked
structure with a duration of about 15 sec. The peak count rate
was ~2300 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~1 sec after the trigger.
Due to a Sun observing constraint, Swift cannot slew to the BAT
position until 17:57 UT on 2024 November 05. There will thus be no XRT
or UVOT data for this trigger before this time.
Burst Advocate for this burst is T. M. Parsotan (tyler.parsotan AT nasa.gov).
Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information
regarding Swift followup of this burst. In extremely urgent cases, after
trying the Burst Advocate, you can contact the Swift PI by phone (see
Swift TOO web site for information: http://www.swift.psu.edu/)