GRB080702B

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Summary IPN Swift GCN 7924 GCN 7931 GCN 7933 GCN 7937 GCN 7943 GCN 7971

Summary table
Variable Value Source
T0 1:10:41 UTC Swift
ra 355.5674° Swift
decl -5.5131° Swift
pos_error 3.11e-04° Swift
T90 20.0 s Swift
T90_start 1:10:41 UTC Swift
fluence 5.00e-07 erg/cm² Swift
T100 20.0 s
GBM_located False
mjd 54649.04908564815 Swift
IPN table
GRB_name GRB080702B
ra 355.6000°
decl -5.4833°
pos_error 5.00e-02°
Swift table
GRB_name GRB080702B
t_trigger 1:10:41 UTC
ra 355.5674°
decl -5.5131°
pos_error 3.11e-04°
T90 20.0 s
fluence 5.00e-07 erg/cm²
GCN 7924 table
GRB_name GRB080702B
GCN_number 7924
Detection_method Swift-BAT Det
ra 355.6160°
decl -5.4240°
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7924 SUBJECT: GRB 080702B : Burst detected in BAT during Swift slew DATE: 08/07/02 20:18:23 GMT FROM: Jay R. Cummings at NASA/GSFC/Swift Jay R. Cummings (NASA/UMBC), A. Copete (Harvard), J. Grindlay (Harvard), D. Palmer (LANL), for the Swift-BAT and BATSS teams At 01:10:41, Swift-BAT observed GRB 080702B. The burst occurred during a preplanned Swift slew maneuver. The rate increase was noted during a routine check of the counting rates for missed out- of-field and slew bursts. A GRB candidate was automatically detected by the BAT Slew Survey (BATSS) with 5.9 sigma in the S band (15-50 keV) and 6.5 sigma in the B band (15-150keV). The burst profile is FRED-like with ~3sec rise and ~30sec decay. The peak count rate is 0.05cts/sec (S band) and 0.04cts/sec (B band). BATSS automated analysis measured T90 = 10.5sec and T50 = 5.5sec, and a position RA = 23h 42m 24s, DEC = -05d 29' 23" with a 90% confidence radius of 6.4arcmin. Further ground analysis of this GRB yielded a location RA, Dec 355.616, -5.424 (J2000) or RA = 23h 42m 27.8s Dec = -05d 25' 26.4" with an estimated error radius of 3 arcmin. A Swift TOO request was submitted, and Swift/XRT and UVOT began observing at about 18:30, approximately 17.3 hours after the burst.
GCN 7931 table
GRB_name GRB080702B
GCN_number 7931
Detection_method Swift Other
ra 355.6326°
decl -5.5318°
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7931 SUBJECT: GRB 080702B: Swift XRT and UVOT observations DATE: 08/07/03 10:46:22 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), P. Schady and M. de Pasquale (MSSL-UCL) report on behalf of the Swift team: Swift began observing the field of GRB 080702B (Cummings et al. GCN circ 7924) at 2008 July 02 at 17:38 UT, 17.3 hours after the burst. In 4 ks of XRT data we do not detect any sources within the refined error circle presented in GCN Circ 7924, down to a 3-sigma upper limit of 2.2 x 10-3 counts s-1. There are two sources within the original error circle in GCN Circ 7924. The brightest lies at RA, Dec=355.6326, -5.5318 degrees, with an estimated uncertainty of 4.7" (radius, 90% confidence). This is coincident with a known optical source, and is not fading; this is thus not the GRB afterglow. The second object lies at RA,Dec=355.5665, -5.51410, which is equivalent to: RA (J2000) = 23 42 15.95 Dec (J2000) = -05 30 50.8 with an estimated uncertainty of 6.3" (radius, 90% containment). The source count rate is around 3e-3 counts per second, and we are unable to determine at present whether this source is fading. In 3.7 ks of UVOT data obtained using the White filter, no new sources are detected. The 3-sigma upper limit at the position of the second XRT source is 22.4 mag. This circular is an official product of the Swift team.
GCN 7933 table
GRB_name GRB080702B
GCN_number 7933
Detection_method Optical
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7933 SUBJECT: GRB 080702b: LCO optical observations DATE: 08/07/03 14:16:49 GMT FROM: Edo Berger at Princton U E. Berger (Princeton/OCIW) and B. Madore (OCIW) report: "Starting on 2008 July 2.36 UT we observed the BAT error circle of GRB 080702b (GCN #7924) using the du Pont 100-inch telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. A total of 1500 sec were obtained in R-band in good seeing conditions (0.9"). A comparison to DSS reveals no new sources to the limit of the survey. Further observations are planned."
GCN 7937 table
GRB_name GRB080702B
GCN_number 7937
Detection_method Swift-BAT Det
ra 355.6160°
decl -5.4240°
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7937 SUBJECT: GRB 080702B Swift-BAT refined analysis DATE: 08/07/03 20:04:06 GMT FROM: Jay R. Cummings at NASA/GSFC/Swift C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), W. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC),A. Copete (Harvard), J. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC), J. Grindlay (Harvard), H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA),K. McLean (GSFC/UMD), D. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (GSFC/UMBC), G. Sato (ISAS), M. Stamatikos (GSFC/ORAU), J. Tueller (GSFC), T. Ukwatta (GWU) On behalf of the Swift-BAT and BATSS teams: Using the event data from T-83 to T+37 seconds, we present further analysis of GRB 080702B. The best-determined position in BAT was RA, Dec 355.616, -5.424 (J2000) or RA = 23h 42m 27.8s Dec = -05d 25' 26.4" with an uncertainty of 3.5 arcmin (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment). The partial coding was varying (the entire burst occurred during a preplanned Swift slew manuever), but was approximately 60% during the entire burst. The mask-weighted light curve shows a single peak with a few second rise, and slow decay. T90 was 20 +- 3 seconds (estimated error including systematics). The time-averaged spectrum from T-2 to T+21 seconds is best fit by a simple power-law model. The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is 1.44 0.13. The fluence in the 15-150 keV band was (5.0 0.9) x 10^-7 ergs/cm2/s. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+4 sec in the 15-150 keV band was 0.5 +- 0.1 photons/cm2/s. All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.
GCN 7943 table
GRB_name GRB080702B
GCN_number 7943
Detection_method GROND
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7943 SUBJECT: GRB 080702B: GROND Upper Limits DATE: 08/07/04 17:10:15 GMT FROM: Christian Clemens at MPE C. Clemens, S. Loew, J. Greiner, A. Yoldas, T. Kruehler (all MPE Garching), A. Kupcu Yoldas (ESO) and G. Szokoly (Eoetvoes Univ., Budapest and MPE Garching) report on behalf of the GROND team: We observed the field of GRB 080702B (Swift; Cummings et al., GCN #7924) simultaneously in g'r'i'z'JHK with GROND (Greiner et al. 2008, PASP 120, 405) mounted at the 2.2 m ESO/MPI telescope at La Silla Observatory (Chile). Observations started at 09:14 UT on July 3rd, 2008, 32.1 hr after the GRB trigger with 53.6 min of effective exposures in g'r'i'z' and 56.0 min in JHK. They were carried out at an average seeing of 0.9". We do not detect any object at the position of the 2nd XRT source within the 6.3'' error circle reported by Evans et al. (GCN #7931) to the following 3 sigma (optical) and 6 sigma (infrared) upper limits: g' > 24.6 mag, r' > 24.5 mag, i' > 23.6 mag, z' > 23.3 mag, J > 22.0 mag, H > 21.0 mag and K > 19.0 mag. Given upper limits are calibrated against USNO-B1 as well as 2MASS field stars.
GCN 7971 table
GRB_name GRB080702B
GCN_number 7971
Detection_method Swift Other
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 7971 SUBJECT: GRB 080702B: Swift XRT confirmation of the afterglow DATE: 08/07/11 09:18:26 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) and M. de Pasquale (MSSL/UCL) report on behalf of the Swift team. Swift has reobserved the field of GRB 080702B (Cummings et al. GCN Circ. 7924) in two pointings on 2008 July 8 and 2008 July 10 (six and eight days after the burst respectively), obtaining 7 ks of data in total. The second X-ray source reported in our previous circular (Evans et al. (GCN Circ 7931) is not detected in these data, with a 3-sigma upper limit of 1.3e-3 counts per second. The count-rate in the initial observation was (5.4 +/- 1.8)e-3 counts per second, thus the source has faded. We therefore conclude that this was the afterglow of GRB 080702B. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.