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GCN Circular 3989

Subject
GRB 050915B: XRT position
Date
2005-09-16T03:34:02Z (19 years ago)
From
Abe Falcone at PSU/Swift <afalcone@astro.psu.edu>
A. D. Falcone, D. N. Burrows, J. A. Kennea (PSU),
W. Voges (MPE), F. Marshall (GSFC)
report on behalf of the Swift XRT team:

The Swift XRT began observing the long bright burst GRB 050915B (Falcone 
et al., GCN 3987) at 21:25:20 UT, but was unable to obtain an on-board 
centroid.  Analysis of the initial ground-processed data finds a bright, 
fading, and uncataloged source at coordinates:

RA(J2000) = 14:36:26.5
Dec(J2000) = -67:24:36.5

We estimate an uncertainty of 8 arcseconds (90% containment). This
position lies 56 arcseconds from the BAT position reported in GCN 3987.
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