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Swift Trigger: 542441

Presumed name: GRB 121217A

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BAT 10h 14m 53.76s, -62° 18′ 14.4″
position:(153.724, -62.304 ± 180″)
XRT 10h 14m 50.30s, -62° 21′ 01.4″
position:(153.7096, -62.3504 ± 2.1″)
UVOT No position available.
Galactic NHI:3.72×1021 cm-2
Galactic E(B-V):NED unavailable
Best RA:10h 14m 50.30s= 153.7096 d
Best Dec:-62° 21′ 01.4″= -62.3504 d
Gal Lat:-4.8
Gal Long:285.83
Sun angle:78.75°, 7.4 hr West

1Sper #8 auto processing.


GCN Notices for this burst.

View this region in Aladin.

Observability of this burst for Swift.


Sun angle for this burst.

UVOT data

UVOT u image

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UVOT white image

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UVOT white image

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Blink images with DSS (link via GSFC)


XRT SPER data

SPER results page for this trigger.

Image of the SPER data

There are 16 SPER messages, and 1 objects have been found

See the SPER page for details of how this position was produced.


Known transients within 5′ of the GRB

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Offset (′′)RA DecDate reportedSource MiscQuery
0.7′′153.70999-62.35047GCN #14090GRB 121217A: Enhanced Swift-XRT positionVizier logo
1.9′′153.70967-62.35092GCN #14092GRB 121217A: Swift/UVOT DetectionVizier logo
5.4′′153.70643-62.35064GCN #14089GRB 121217A: Swift detection of a burstVizier logo
13.2′′153.70800-62.35400GCN #14096GRB 121217A: Swift-BAT refined analysisVizier logo

Catalogue Searches. Searched 3.33′ around XRT position

Click on the distance to view the full details (not available for sources from the SSS catalogue). Click on the column headers to sort the table on that column (click again to invert sort order).

SIMBAD

RA*Dec*SIMBAD name Query
103.9153.7592-62.3678LEDA 2792355Query vizier around this object
153.9153.7252-62.3925TYC 8947-29-1B=12.95, V=11.42Query vizier around this object

* RA/Dec in equinox J2000

X-ray sources

RA*Dec* Source table2Observatory Query

Queried the X-ray MASTER catalogue.

* RA/Dec in equinox J2000

1Energy band for count-rate is mission specific.

Galaxies

RA*Dec*Redshift CatalogueQuery
2.6153.7085-62.3509B2=19.5, R2=20.0USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
6.0153.7060-62.3502B2=20.8, R2=19.6USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
10.2153.7151-62.3517I=14.7, R2=14.6USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
13.7153.7035-62.3529I=17.1, R1=17.2, R2=18.0USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
16.0153.7190-62.3513B2=18.4, I=13.6, R2=14.2USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
17.0153.7051-62.3462B2=16.2, I=14.8, R1=14.3, R2=15.0USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
21.0153.6983-62.3479B2=20.8, R2=20.9USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
21.6153.7220-62.3486B2=19.2, R2=19.7USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
23.2153.7030-62.3561B2=18.9, R2=18.3USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
24.2153.7032-62.3564B=20.6SSSQuery vizier around this object

Queried APM-N, SDSS, PSCz, SSS, NED, 2MASSX, USNO-B1.

There are 627 galaxies within the position error. The full list is here.

* RA/Dec in equinox J2000

Magnitudes depend on the catalogue. e.g. For Sloan, R is the Sloan r mag, not the Johnson R from APM, for example

Stars

RA*Dec* CatalogueQuery
118.0153.6404-62.3439B2=84.1, R2=17.9USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
171.5153.7546-62.3932B2=21.1, R2=80.1USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
191.7153.7780-62.3932B2=19.1, R2=76.4USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
168.9153.6353-62.3823B2=20.5, R2=50.0USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
118.3153.6509-62.3688B2=50.0, R2=16.6USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
132.6153.6644-62.3807B2=50.0, R2=24.3USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
188.6153.7285-62.4020B2=50.0, R2=20.9USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
190.9153.7463-62.4006B2=50.0, R2=27.6USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
157.6153.6932-62.3073B2=17.2, R2=29.7USNO-B1Query vizier around this object
68.6153.6704-62.3447B2=21.5, R2=28.9USNO-B1Query vizier around this object

Queried USNO-B1, SDSS, 2MASS.

There are 1768 stars within the position error. The full list is here.

* RA/Dec in equinox J2000

Magnitudes depend on the catalogue. e.g. For Sloan, R is the Sloan r mag, not the Johnson R from APM, for example.