GRB 060510

H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
A. P. Beardmore (U Leicester), D. N. Burrows (PSU),
M. Capalbi (ASDC), M.L. Conciatore (ASDC), N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC),
C. Gronwall (PSU), S. T. Holland (GSFC/USRA),
K. L. Page (U Leicester), D. M. Palmer (LANL), M. Perri (ASDC),
E. Troja (INAF-IASFPA) and L. Vetere (ASDC) report on behalf of the
Swift Team:

At 07:43:27 UT, Swift-BAT triggered and located GRB 060510 (trigger=209351). 
The spacecraft slewed immediately.  The BAT on-board calculated location
is RA,Dec 95.870d,-1.162d {06h 23m 29s,-1d 09' 43"} (J2000), with an
uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, stat+sys). 
The BAT light curve shows a multi-peak structure with a total duration
of ~30 sec.  The peak count rate was ~8000 counts/sec (15-350 keV),
at ~1 seconds after the trigger. 

The XRT began observing the field at 07:44:57 UT, 90 seconds after the
BAT trigger. The on-board centroiding algorithm was confused by a cosmic ray 
close to the X-ray afterglow and the position sent out in the automated GCN 
Notice was incorrect.  Using ground-processed data, we find a bright X-ray source
located at RA(J2000) = 06h 23m 28.1s, Dec(J2000) = -01d 09' 44.9", with an
estimated uncertainty of 8 arcseconds (90% confidence radius). 
This location is 11 arcseconds from the BAT on-board position, within
the BAT error circle. 

UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 100 seconds with the White
(160-650 nm) filter starting 100 seconds after the BAT trigger. 
A fading source was found at RA,Dec = 06h 23m 28.0s -1d 09' 46" (J2000)
with a mag of 18.2.  There is nothing in DSS.  No correction has been made
for the expected extinction corresponding to E(B-V) of 0.41. 

This burst (trigger 209351) should not be confused with the second
Swift-BAT trigger (209352) 38 minutes later.

Richard J. Cool (Arizona), Daniel J. Eisenstein (Arizona),
David W. Hogg (NYU), Michael R. Blanton (NYU), David
J. Schlegel (LBNL), J. Brinkmann (APO), Donald Q. Lamb
(Chicago), Donald P. Schneider (PSU), and Daniel E. Vanden
Berk (PSU) report:

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaged the field of
burst GRB060510 prior to the burst.  As these data should
be useful as a pre-burst comparison and for calibrating
photometry, we are supplying the images and photometry
measurements for this GRB field to the community.

Data from the SDSS, including 5 FITS images, 3 JPGS, and
3 files of photometry and astrometry, are being placed
at http://mizar.as.arizona.edu/~grb/public/GRB060510

We supply FITS images in each of the 5 SDSS bands of a
8'x8' region centered on the GRB position (ra=95.8671
(06:23:28.1), dec=-1.16247 (-01:09:44.9); GCN 5095
Loading...
 
 ),
as well as 3 gri color-composite JPGs (with different
stretches). The units in the FITS images are nanomaggies
per pixel.  A pixel is 0.396 arcsec on a side. A nanomaggie
is a flux-density unit equal to 10^-9 of a magnitude
0 source or, to the extent that SDSS is an AB system,
3.631e-6 Jy.  The FITS images have WCS astrometric
information.

In the file GRB060510_sdss.calstar.dat, we report
photometry and astrometry of 1819 bright stars (r<20.5)
within 15' of the burst location.  The magnitudes presented
in this file are asinh magnitudes as are standard in the
SDSS (Lupton 1999, AJ, 118, 1406). Beware that some of
these stars are not well-detected in the u-band; use the
errors and object flags to monitor data quality.

In the files GRB060510_sdss.objects_flux.dat and
GRB060510_sdss.objects_magnitudes.dat, we report photometry
of 2209 objects detected within 6' of the GRB position.
We have removed saturated objects and objects with
model magnitudes fainter than 23.0 in the r-band.
The fluxes listed in GRB060510_sdss.objects_flux.dat
are in nanomaggies while the magnitudes listed in
GRB060510_sdss.objects_magnitudes.dat are asinh magnitudes.

All quantities reported are standard SDSS photometry,
meaning that they are very close to AB zeropoints
and magnitudes are quoted in asinh magnitudes.
Photometric zeropoints are known to about 2% rms.
None of the photometry is corrected for dust extinction.
The Schlegel, Finkbeiner, and Davis (1998) predictions
for this region are A_U=2.083 mag, A_g=1.533 mag, A_r =
1.112 mag, A_i=0.843 mag, and A_z=0.598 mag.

There are currently no objects within 6 arcminutes of the
GRB position in the SDSS spectroscopic database.

SDSS astrometry is generally better than 0.1 arcsecond
per coordinate.  Users requiring high precision astrometry
should take note that the SDSS astrometric system can
differ from other systems such as those used in other
notices; we have not checked the offsets in this region.

More detailed information pertaining to our SDSS GRB
releases can be found in our initial data release paper
(Cool et al. 2006, astro-ph/0601218).  See the SDSS DR4
documentation for more details: http://www.sdss.org/dr4.

These data have been reduced using a slightly different
pipeline than that used for SDSS public data releases.
We cannot guarantee that the values here will exactly match
those in the data release in which these data are included.
In particular, we expect the photometric calibrations to
differ by of order 0.01 mag.

This note may be cited, but please also cite the SDSS data
release paper, Adelman-McCarthy et al. (2006, ApJS, in
press, astro-ph/0507711), when using the data or referring
to the technical documentation.