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GCN Circular 18661

Subject
GRB 151205B: Swift-XRT observations
Date
2015-12-05T23:07:32Z (9 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
J.A. Kennea (PSU), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), S. Campana (INAF-OAB),
P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester) and D.N. Burrows
(PSU) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

The XRT began observing the field of GRB 151205B at 22:35:21.5 UT,
3127.1 seconds after the BAT trigger. No source was detected in 245 s
of promptly downlinked data. We are waiting for the full dataset to
detect and localise the XRT counterpart.
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