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GCN Circular 5855

Subject
GRB 061126: XRT position
Date
2006-11-26T09:49:51Z (17 years ago)
From
Boris Sbarufatti at INAF-IASF-Pa <sbarufatti@ifc.inaf.it>
B. Sbarufatti (INAF-IASFPA), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
V. Mangano (INAF-IASFPA), K. L. Page (U Leicester),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), M. Stamatikos (NASA/ORAU) and
D. E. Vanden Berk (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift Team:

XRT slewed to the source after 23 minutes due to Earth constraint.
A source has been detected in downlinked TDRSS data (31 minutes after  
the
trigger) at the position :

RA(hh mm ss.s) = 5h46m24.4s
Dec(dd mm ss.s) = +64:12:36.0

with a 4.2 arcsec uncertainty (90% containment).
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