GCN Circular 8379
Subject
GRB 081016: Swift-XRT candidate afterglow detection
Date
2008-10-16T17:19:15Z (16 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@star.le.ac.uk>
P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT Team
We have obtained 2 ks of XRT Photon Counting mode data of GRB 081016 (Gotz
et al. GCN Circ. 8377), beginning 20.4 ks after the INTEGRAL trigger. We
find an uncatalogued X-ray source at RA,Dec, 255.57032, -23.33556 which is
equvialent to:
RA (J2000.0): 17 02 16.88
Dec (J2000.0): -23:20:08.0
with an estimated uncertainty of 3.6" (radius, 90% confidence). This
position is 21" from the INTEGRAL position, within the INTEGRAL error
circle. It is not currently possible to determine whether this source is
fading. Further observations are planned.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.