GRB 120419A
GCN Circular 15210
Subject
GRB 120419A: Swift XRT confirmation of the afterglow
Date
2013-09-11T08:38:22Z (12 years ago)
From
Rhaana Starling at U of Leicester <rlcs1@star.le.ac.uk>
R.L.C. Starling and K.L. Page (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift XRT team:
Swift performed a further pointing of INTEGRAL-detected burst GRB 120419A
(Gotz et al., GCN Circ. 13241), on 10th September 2013 for a total exposure of 3.9 ks.
No source is detected at the position of the X-ray source previously localised with XRT
(Page et al., GCN Circ. 13242). We measure an upper limit on the count rate of 2.4e-3
count s^-1. The source has therefore faded and we confirm this as the X-ray afterglow
of GRB 120419A.
GCN Circular 13242
Subject
GRB 120419A: Swift-XRT and UVOT observations
Date
2012-04-20T15:01:09Z (14 years ago)
From
Kim Page at U.of Leicester <klp5@leicester.ac.uk>
K.L. Page, R.L.C. Starling, P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), S.R. Oates
(MSSL-UCL) and T. Sakamoto (GSFC/UMBC) report on behalf of the
Swift-XRT and UVOT teams:
We have analysed 2.0 ks of XRT data for the INTEGRAL-detected burst GRB
120419A (Gotz et al., GCN Circ. 13241), from 25.6 ks to 32.3 ks after
the INTEGRAL trigger. The data are entirely in Photon Counting (PC)
mode. There is a faint source detected within the INTEGRAL error circle
at a position of RA, Dec = 187.38762, -63.00791, which is equivalent to
RA (J2000): 12h 29m 33.03s
Dec(J2000): -63d 00' 28.5"
with an uncertainty of 4.5". This position is 40.7" from the
INTEGRAL position. The source count rate is 0.0079 +/- 0.0033 count
s^-1; we cannot determine whether the source is fading.
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00020215.
The UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 120419A
25.7 ks after the INTEGRAL trigger. No optical afterglow, consistent
with either the INTEGRAL position or with the candidate X-ray position
given above, is detected in the initial UVOT exposures. Preliminary
3-sigma upper limit using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al.
2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the initial exposure is:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s)�� Mag
u������������25697������������26908�������� 1191��������>20.5
The magnitude in the table is not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the large but uncertain reddening in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT and UVOT teams.
GCN Circular 13241
Subject
GRB 120419A: A long GRB detected by INTEGRAL
Date
2012-04-19T14:10:21Z (14 years ago)
From
Sandro Mereghetti at IASF/CNR <sandro@iasf-milano.inaf.it>
D.Gotz (CEA-Saclay), S.Mereghetti (IASF-Milano), J. Borkowski (CAMK,
Torun), E. Bozzo, C.Ricci (ISDC, Versoix), on behalf of the IBAS
Localization Team report:
a long gamma ray burst lasting about 20 s has been detected by IBAS in the
IBIS/ISGRI data at 12:56:25 UT of April 19
Its refined coordinates (J2000) are:
RA: 187.4024 [degrees]
DEC: -63.017 [degrees]
with an uncertainty of 2.5 arcmin (90% c.l.).
A preliminary analysis gives a 20-200 keV fluence of about 2e-7 erg/cm2
and a peak flux of about 0.4 ph/cm2 s (1 s integration time)
A plot of the light curve will be posted at
http://ibas.iasf-milano.inaf.it/IBAS_Results.html