GCN Circular 8789
Subject
GRB 090107B: Swift-XRT detection of possible afterglow
Date
2009-01-07T21:09:39Z (15 years ago)
From
Matteo Perri at ISAC/ASDC <perri@asdc.asi.it>
M. Perri (ASDC) and P. Evans (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the
Swift-XRT team:
Swift began observing the field of the INTEGRAL GRB 090107B (Gotz et
al., GCN Circ. 8786) 4.2 ks after the trigger. A single uncatalogued
source was identified within the IBIS/ISGRI error circle.
Using 1314 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 2 UVOT images, we find
an astrometrically corrected X-ray position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment
and matching UVOT field sources to the USNO-B1 catalogue): RA, Dec =
284.81750, 59.59510 which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000): 18 59 16.21
Dec (J2000): +59 35 42.3
with an uncertainty of 1.8 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence). The source
lies 21 arcsec from the IBIS/ISGRI centroid and has a count rate of
~0.25 counts/s during this observation.
Currently we cannot determine if this source is fading, and therefore
cannot confirm if this source is associated with GRB 090107B.
Observations of this source are on-going.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.