GCN Circular 3812
Subject
GRB050815: Swift XRT afterglow localization
Date
2005-08-15T20:03:21Z (19 years ago)
From
Jamie A. Kennea at PSU/Swift-XRT <kennea@astro.psu.edu>
D. C. Morris, D. N. Burrows, J. A. Kennea, J. L. Racusin (PSU), and N.
Gehrels (GSFC) report on behalf of the Swift XRT team:
The Swift BAT instrument detected GRB 050815 at 17:25:19 UT (Fox et al.
2005, GCN 3811). The observatory executed an automated slew to the BAT
position and the XRT began taking data at 17:26:28 UT (69 seconds after
the BAT trigger). Due to a low source count rate, the XRT did not succeed
in calculating an on-board centroid. In the ground-processed data, we
find a faint, uncataloged, fading X-ray source located at:
RA(J2000) = 19:34:22.9
Dec(J2000) = +09:08:46.1
We identify this as the afterglow of the GRB. We estimate an uncertainty
of about 8 arcseconds radius (90% containment). This source is located
102 arcseconds from the BAT position in GCN 3811.