GCN Circular 7576
Subject
GRB 080408: Swift-XRT position of a possible afterglow
Date
2008-04-09T08:04:22Z (16 years ago)
From
Kim Page at U.of Leicester <kpa@star.le.ac.uk>
K.L. Page (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT Team:
Swift performed a Target of Opportunity observation of the SuperAGILE GRB
080408 (Soffitta et al., GCN Circ 7571), starting ~25 ks after the
trigger. The intended observation was cut short by the BAT detection of
GRB 080409 (Holland et al., GCN Circ. 7573), but a source is still
detected during the 800 s of data obtained, at a position of RA, Dec =
114.66547, +33.30341, which is equivalent to
RA(J2000): 07 38 39.71
Dec(J2000): +33 18 12.3
with an uncertainty of 8.6 arcsec (radius, 90% containment). This is 38.1
arcsec from the SuperAGILE position, within their error circle.
The source has a count rate of 0.010 +/- 0.004 count s^-1, however, with
the limited data, it is not possible to determine whether it is fading.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.