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GCN Circular 23471

Subject
GRB 181201A: likely Swift/XRT afterglow
Date
2018-12-01T10:23:45Z (6 years ago)
From
Sandro Mereghetti at IASF-Milano/INAF <sandro.mereghetti@inaf.it>
S.Mereghetti, F.Pintore (IASF-Milano), D.Gotz (CEA, Saclay),
C.Ferrigno, E.Bozzo,
V.Savchenko (ISDC, Versoix), L.Ducci (IAAT, Germany and ISDC, Versoix)
and J.Borkowski (CAMK, Torun) report:

The Swift XRT observed the position of GRB181201A starting 4 hr after the
INTEGRAL trigger time, from 6:33 UT to 7:06 UT.
A possibly fading X-ray source with count rate of 2.38+/-0.04 ct/s is
detected inside the IBAS error circle at coordinates
R.A. = 21 17 11
Dec.= -12 37 48

[GCN OPS NOTE(01dec18): Per author's request, indentification name of the burst
was changed from "GRB 180112A" to "GRB 181201A" in both the SUBJECT line
and in the first sentence of the circular.]
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