GCN Circular 5132
Subject
GRB 060515: Swift detection of a burst
Date
2006-05-15T02:51:21Z (18 years ago)
From
Jay R. Cummings at NASA/GSFC/Swift <jayc@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
J. R. Cummings (NASA/ORAU), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
M. M. Chester (PSU), N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), J. A. Kennea (PSU),
K. L. Page (U Leicester) and D. M. Palmer (LANL) report on behalf of
the Swift Team:
At 02:27:52 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and
located GRB 060515 (trigger=210084). Swift did not slew to the burst
because of the earth observing constraint. The BAT on-board calculated
location is RA,Dec 127.287, +73.551 {08h 29m 09s, +73d 33' 03"} (J2000)
with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including
systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve shows multiple overlapping
peaks with total duration of ~35 sec. The peak count rate
was ~1000 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~5 sec after the trigger.
There will be no XRT or UVOT data products until Swift comes out of the
constraint, at T+52 minutes.