GCN Circular 20586
Subject
GRB 170202A: Enhanced Swift-XRT position
Date
2017-02-03T04:26:17Z (8 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
J.P. Osborne, A.P. Beardmore, P.A. Evans and M.R. Goad (U. Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team.
Using 2000 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 4 UVOT
images for GRB 170202A, 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 = 152.51441, +5.01136 which is equivalent
to:
RA (J2000): 10h 10m 3.46s
Dec (J2000): +05d 00' 40.9"
with an uncertainty of 1.4 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence).
This position may be improved as more data are received. The latest
position can be viewed at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_positions. Position
enhancement is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401) and Evans
et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177).
This circular was automatically generated, and is an official product of the
Swift-XRT team.