GCN Circular 4378
Subject
Possible GRB 051221B: Swift XRT position
Event
Date
2005-12-21T23:01:31Z (20 years ago)
From
Kim Page at U.of Leicester <kpa@star.le.ac.uk>
K.L. Page, J. Racusin, A.P. Beardmore, D.N. Burrows and N. Gehrels report
on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed the first orbit of XRT data for BAT trigger 173904 (GCN
4376, Boyd et al.) and find a fading, uncatalogued source located at
RA(J2000) = 20h 49m 35.1s
Dec(J2000) = 53h 02m 12.2s
with an estimated uncertainty of 4.5 arcsec (90% containment). This
includes the latest XRT boresight correction and is 62 arcsec from the
on-board BAT position given in GCN 4376.
From the current data, it is still not possible to determine whether the
source is a GRB or a hard X-ray transient.