GCN Circular 8364
Subject
GRB 081012: Swift/XRT detection
Event
Date
2008-10-12T17:06:28Z (17 years ago)
From
Jamie A. Kennea at PSU/Swift-XRT <kennea@astro.psu.edu>
J. A. Kennea and M. Stroh (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift/XRT Team
We have analyzed downlinked data from the XRT observations of GRB 081012
(Stroh et al, GCN #8361). The XRT began observing the field at 14:00:09
UT, approximately 49 minutes after the BAT trigger. Data from the first
orbit of observations reveal an uncatalogued point source at RA, Dec =
30.20029, -17.63715 which is the equivalent to:
RA(J2000) = 02h 00m 48.0s
Dec(J2000) = -17d 38m 13.7s
with an estimated uncertainty of 8 arcseconds radius (90% confidence).
This position is 67 arcseconds from the BAT refined position (Sato et
al, GCN #8363).