GCN Circular 38525
Subject
GRB 241209B: Swift-XRT afterglow detection
Date
2024-12-10T14:36:15Z (25 days ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@star.le.ac.uk>
Via
email
M. A. Williams (PSU), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U.
Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), M.G. Bernardini (INAF-OAB),
E. Ambrosi (INAF-IASFPA) , M. Capalbi (INAF-IASFPA), S. Dichiara
(PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU) and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on
behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the
SVOM/ECLAIRs-detected burst GRB 241209B. We searched for X-ray sources
in 3.1 ks of Photon Counting (PC) mode data. The total exposure at the
position of the afterglow (see below) is 3.1 ks, obtained between
T0+50.8 ks and T0+57.9 ks.
An uncatalogued X-ray source is detected within the estimated 3-sigma
SVOM/ECLAIRs error region (459 arcsec) and is believed to be the
afterglow, given its positional coincidence with the SVOM/VT optical
transient (GCN 38516). Using 1725 s of PC mode data and 1 UVOT image,
we find an enhanced XRT position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment and
matching UVOT field sources to the USNO-B1 catalogue): RA, Dec =
194.63185, +76.17637 which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000): 12h 58m 31.64s
Dec(J2000): +76d 10' 34.9"
with an uncertainty of 4.5 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence). This
position is 5.7 arcmin from the SVOM/ECLAIRs position. We cannot
determine at the present time whether the source is fading.
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00021739.
The results of the full analysis of the XRT observations are available
at https://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/00021739.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.