GCN Circular 6514
Subject
GRB 070612B: Swift XRT position from downlink data
Event
Date
2007-06-12T07:49:35Z (19 years ago)
From
Dirk Grupe at PSU/Swift-XRT <grupe@astro.psu.edu>
D. Grupe (PSU), P. Evans (U Leicester), report on behalf of the Swift Team:
Swift XRT started observing the afterglow of GRB 070612B (GCN circ 6511)
at 07:15:15.59, 3239s after the BAT trigger. We found a bright,
uncatalogued, possibly fading source in the XRT data.
Using 272 of prompt downlinked data, we find a position RA, Dec
261.7267, -8.7524 which is
RA(J2000) = 17 26 54.4
Dec(J2000) = -08 45 08.7
with an uncertainty of 4.7 arcsec (radius, 90% containment).
Further analysis of the data will be performed with the ground-processed
data.