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GCN Circular 41463

Subject
GRB 250821A: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position
Date
2025-08-21T11:57:10Z (4 days ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@star.le.ac.uk>
Via
email
P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

Using 1.6 ks of promptly downlinked XRT event data for GRB 250821A, we
find an enhanced XRT position of the afterglow: RA, Dec: 358.44056,
-28.65369 which is equivalent to:
   RA (J2000)  = 23 53 45.73
   Dec (J2000) = -28 39 13.3
with an uncertainty of 2.9 arcseconds (radius, 90% confidence).
Analysis of the promptly available data is online at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/sper/1344131.

Position enhancement is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401)
and Evans et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177).

This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.


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