GCN Circular 5251
Subject
GRB 060602A: Swift/XRT analysis
Event
Date
2006-06-12T21:23:42Z (19 years ago)
From
Jamie A. Kennea at PSU/Swift-XRT <kennea@astro.psu.edu>
K. L. Page, A. P. Beardmore (U. Leicester) and J. A. Kennea (PSU) report
on behalf of the Swift/XRT team:
We have analysed 37.8 ks of XRT data obtained for the field of GRB 060602A
(Schady et al.; GCN 5196), starting 1.8 days after the trigger, when the
burst was no longer Moon constrained.
A faint source was found within the BAT error circle, at a position of
RA(J2000) = 09 58 16.80
Dec(J2000) = +00 18 14.8
with an estimated uncertainty of 4.2 arcsec (90% containment). This source
is fading with an approximate slope of alpha = 1.10, so is very likely the
X-ray afterglow.
This source is 2.3 arcsec from the possible counterpart identified by
Jensen et al. (GCN 5203).
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.