Swift Trigger: 667392

Presumed name: GRB 151215A

BAT	06^h 14^m 22.80^s, +35° 30′ 32.4″
position:	(93.595, 35.509 ± 180″)
XRT	06^h 14^m 20.16^s, +35° 30′ 57.6″
position:	(93.5840, 35.5160 ± 2.5″)
UVOT	No position available.
Galactic N_HI:	2.64×10⁰ cm^-2
Galactic E(B-V):	0.374 mag

Best RA:	06^h 14^m 20.16^s	= 93.5840 d
Best Dec:	+35° 30′ 57.6″	= 35.5160 d

Gal Lat:	8.52
Gal Long:	177.25

Sun angle:	164.08°, 11.2 hr West

¹Sper #4 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

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Blink images with DSS (link via GSFC)

XRT SPER data

SPER results page for this trigger.

There are 14 SPER messages, and 1 objects have been found

- Object 1 - enhanced position.
- RA (J2000) : 06 14 20.17 (35.5162)
- Dec (J2000): +35 30 58.3 ( 35.51485)
- Error (90%): 2.2
- Counts in Source: 116

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	Dec	Source	Misc
0.4′′	93.58408	35.51608	GCN #18695	GRB 151215A: Enhanced Swift-XRT position
0.7′′	93.58404	35.51619	GCN #18693	GRB 151215A: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position
0.8′′	93.58425	35.51589	GCN #18692	GRB151215A: P60 Optical Afterglow Candidate
1.1′′	93.58437	35.51594	GCN #18698	GRB151215A: Swift/UVOT detection
6.8′′	93.58200	35.51503	GCN #18691	GRB 151215A: Swift detection of a burst
8.9′′	93.58304	35.51833	GCN #18696	GRB 151215A: NOT spectroscopy and redshift
120.8′′	93.62200	35.52900	GCN #18699	GRB 151215A: Swift-BAT refined analysis

There are 13 matches in total. See the full table for details.

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

* RA/Dec in equinox J2000

X-ray sources

	RA*	Dec*		Source table²	Observatory	Query

Queried the X-ray MASTER catalogue.

* RA/Dec in equinox J2000

¹Energy band for count-rate is mission specific.

Galaxies

	RA*	Dec*		Catalogue
29.9	93.5861	35.5241	I=18.5, R1=18.8	USNO-B1
50.8	93.6013	35.5150		NED
55.9	93.5864	35.5006	B2=20.6, I=18.5, R2=19.5	USNO-B1
60.7	93.5983	35.5281		NED
61.0	93.6047	35.5146	B1=19.8, B2=19.1, I=17.7, R1=18.4, R2=18.2	USNO-B1
67.7	93.5700	35.5011		NED
67.9	93.5700	35.5010	B1=15.1, B2=15.1, I=13.7, R1=14.2, R2=14.6	USNO-B1
74.4	93.6090	35.5123	I=18.5, R1=19.2	USNO-B1
76.4	93.6063	35.5047		NED
78.7	93.5966	35.4967	B2=20.8, I=17.7, R2=19.1	USNO-B1

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

There are 79 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*		Catalogue
3.8	93.5846	35.5150	B1=19.6, B2=19.9, I=18.2, R1=18.5, R2=18.9	USNO-B1
8.6	93.5830	35.5182	h=14.6, j=15.1, k=14.4	2MASS
8.8	93.5830	35.5183	B1=18.4, B2=18.0, I=16.1, R1=16.3, R2=16.7	USNO-B1
17.2	93.5791	35.5134	B2=21.1, I=18.6, R1=19.1, R2=19.3	USNO-B1
18.5	93.5777	35.5157	B1=19.3, B2=18.8, I=17.4, R1=17.9, R2=17.9	USNO-B1
18.8	93.5776	35.5157	h=16.0, j=16.5, k=15.6	2MASS
23.9	93.5909	35.5125	B1=20.3, B2=20.1, I=18.3, R1=18.6, R2=18.9	USNO-B1
40.1	93.5737	35.5233	h=15.3, j=15.6, k=15.2	2MASS
40.2	93.5737	35.5234	B1=18.9, B2=18.2, I=16.6, R1=17.0, R2=17.0	USNO-B1
45.2	93.5961	35.5238	B1=20.2, B2=20.4, I=18.5, R1=19.1, R2=19.2	USNO-B1

Queried USNO-B1, SDSS, 2MASS.

There are 276 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.