| Summary table |
|---|
| Variable |
Value |
Source |
| T0 |
4:12:47 UTC |
GCN_circulars,Swift Det |
| ra |
152.6390° |
GCN_circulars,Swift Det |
| decl |
43.2420° |
GCN_circulars,Swift Det |
| GBM_located |
False |
|
| mjd |
54576.17554398148 |
GCN_circulars,Swift Det |
| GCN 7632 table |
|---|
| GRB_name |
GRB080420A |
| GCN_number |
7632 |
| Detection_method |
Swift Det |
| t_trigger |
4:12:47 UTC |
| ra |
152.6390° |
| decl |
43.2420° |
| Circular_text |
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 7632
SUBJECT: GRB 080420?: Swift detection of a possible short burst
DATE: 08/04/20 04:37:41 GMT
FROM: David Palmer at LANL
L. Vetere (PSU), D. N. Burrows (PSU), M. M. Chester (PSU),
D. Grupe (PSU), J. A. Kennea (PSU), H. A. Krimm (CRESST/GSFC/USRA),
C. B. Markwardt (CRESST/GSFC/UMD), C. Pagani (PSU),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), J. L. Racusin (PSU), M. Stamatikos (NASA/ORAU)
and M. C. Stroh (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift Team:
At 04:12:47 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and
located possible GRB 080420 (trigger=309665). Swift slewed immediately
to the calculated location. The BAT on-board calculated location is
RA, Dec 152.639, +43.242 which is
RA(J2000) = 10h 10m 33s
Dec(J2000) = +43d 14' 33"
with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including
systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve showed a single spike
structure in a single 64 msec bin. The peak count rate
was ~1300 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~0 sec after the trigger.
Because of the low significance of the detection (6.6 sigma) we
cannot positively confirm that this is a real event until we
receive the downlinked data from Malindi around 10:00 UT.
The XRT began observing the source at 04:13:42 UT, 54 s after the BAT trigger.
The on-board detection algorithm did not centroid on a source due to
insufficient counts so no prompt X-ray position is available at the moment.
No source is seen in 300 seconds of promptly downloaded data; therefore
any X-ray source is extremely faint. No further data will be available until
about 10 UT.
UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 100 seconds with the White
(160-650 nm) filter starting 57 seconds after the BAT trigger, and
an exposure of 400 seconds with the V filter starting 163 seconds
after the BAT trigger. No afterglow candidate has been found in the
initial data products. The 2.7'x2.7' sub-image covers 25% of the BAT
error circle. The typical 3-sigma upper limit has been about 18.5
mag. The 8'x8' region for the list of sources generated on-board
covers 100% of the BAT error circle. The list of sources is typically
complete to about 18 mag. No correction has been made for the
expected extinction corresponding to E(B-V) of 0.01.
Burst Advocate for this burst is L. Vetere (vetere AT astro.psu.edu).
Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information
regarding Swift followup of this burst. In extremely urgent cases, after
trying the Burst Advocate, you can contact the Swift PI by phone (see
Swift TOO web site for information: http://www.swift.psu.edu/too.html.)
[GCN OPS NOTE(21apr08): Per author's request, the "~2000 counts/sec"
in the first paragraph was changed to "~1300 counts/sec".]
|
| GCN 7633 table |
|---|
| GRB_name |
GRB080420A |
| GCN_number |
7633 |
| Detection_method |
Swift-BAT Det |
| Circular_text |
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 7633
SUBJECT: GRB 080420A: ROTSE-III Optical Limits on a possible short burst
DATE: 08/04/20 04:50:49 GMT
FROM: Brad Schaefer at LSU
B. E. Schaefer (Louisiana State), F. Yuan (U Mich), W. Rujopakarn
(Steward), report on behalf of the ROTSE collaboration:
ROTSE-IIIb, located at McDonald Observatory, Texas, responded to GRB
080420 (Swift trigger 309665; Vetere, L. et al., GCN 7632) a possible
short burst, producing images beginning 8.1 s after the GCN notice time.
An automated response took the first image at 04:13:10.2 UT, 23.0 s after
the burst, under fair conditions. These observations were affected by the
Full Moon 75 degrees away. We took 10 5-sec, and 60 20-sec exposures.
These unfiltered images are calibrated relative to USNO A2.0 (R). Imaging
is on going.
Comparison to the DSS (second epoch) reveals no new sources within the
3-sigma Swift/BAT error circle; the field is not crowded. Individual
images have limiting magnitudes ranging from 16.1-17.1; we set the
following specific limits.
start UT end UT t_exp(s) mlim t_start-tGRB(s) Coadd?
--------------------------------------------------------------------
04:13:10.2 04:13:15.2 5 16.1 23.0 N
04:13:10.2 04:14:17.3 67 18.1 23.0 Y
04:24:09.3 04:28:51.6 282 18.5 682.1 Y
|
| GCN 7634 table |
|---|
| GRB_name |
GRB080420A |
| GCN_number |
7634 |
| Detection_method |
Swift-BAT Det |
| Circular_text |
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 7634
SUBJECT: Swift-BAT trigger 309665 is not a GRB
DATE: 08/04/20 13:32:43 GMT
FROM: Hans Krimm at NASA-GSFC
H.A. Krimm (CRESST/GSFC/USRA) and L. Vetere (PSU) report on behalf of
the Swift Team:
The Swift-BAT trigger (trigger=309665) at 04:12:47 UT on 20 April 2008,
tentatively labelled GRB 080420 (GCN 7632, Vetere et al.),
is not due to a GRB or any other astrophysical source. This trigger
is due to a cosmic ray shower event in the instrument. All events
occurred in the same 100 microsec window.
|