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GCN Circular 4301

Subject
GRB 051117A: Swift/UVOT Detection of an Afterglow: Correction
Date
2005-11-22T21:11:22Z (19 years ago)
From
Stephen Holland at USRA/NASA/GSFC/SSC <sholland@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
GRB 051117A: Swift/UVOT Detection of an Afterglow: Correction

S. T. Holland (GSFC/USRA), on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team report:

      There is an error in the coordinates for the UVOT fading
source associated with GRB 051117A (Holland et al., 2005, GCN
Circular 4300).  The correct coordinates are

RA(J2000) =  15:13:34.09
Dec(J2000) = +30:52:12.7

with a positional uncertainty of +/-0.5 arcsec (1-sigma).  We
apologize for this error and any inconvenience that it may
have caused.
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