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GRB 160422A: Swift observation summary

Mission:Fermi/LAT
GRB RA:42.050°
GRB Dec:-57.900°
GRB Err:4.2 arcmin
T0:2016-04-22 11:58:43 UT
Galactic:277.39° -53.05°
Galactic NH:2.17× 1020 cm-2
Galactic E(B-V):0.0241928
Sun distance:70.97°
Sun angle:0.76 [hr] (East of Sun)
Moon distance:111.81°
Visibility of this field.

Source 1 has been manually confirmed as the GRB afterglow; data for this object are now available through the main GRB results area for this GRB.

About ToO field analysis.

Probable afterglow details

A source was found which matches the afterglow criteria.

# RA (J2000) Dec (J2000) Err901 Detection
Flag2
Dist from
LAT pos
Exposure Notes Vizier
1
[details]
02h 48m 22.74s -57° 52′ 32.6″ 3.6′′ Good 2.0′ 4.1 ks The source is fading.
The source is brighter than the RASS limit.
Vizier logo

1 Radius, 90% confidence.
2 Indicates how likely the source is to be real. See the 1SXPS documentation.
* The position was enhanced using astrometry derived from the Swift UVOT.
The position was astrometrically corrected using the XRT sources and the 2MASS catalogue.


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Sources found so far

So far 7 sources have been found in the XRT data. 2 sources match catalogued sources.

# RA (J2000) Dec (J2000) Err901 Detection
Flag2
Dist from
LAT pos
Exposure Notes Vizier
1
[details]
02h 48m 22.74s -57° 52′ 32.6″ 3.6′′ Good 2.0′ 4.1 ks The source is fading.
The source is brighter than the RASS limit.
Vizier logo
2
[details]
02h 47m 46.65s -58° 04′ 28.5″ 4.1′′ Good 11.0′ 2.5 ks A SIMBAD object matches this source's position: (Show) Vizier logo
3
[details]
02h 48m 16.61s -57° 57′ 47.6″ 5.1′′ Good 3.8′ 4.0 ks Vizier logo
4
[details]
02h 48m 48.77s -57° 52′ 12.5″ 6.8′′ Good 5.2′ 3.8 ks Vizier logo
5
[details]
02h 49m 09.76s -57° 49′ 15.5″ 4.7′′ Good 9.0′ 4.1 ks A SIMBAD object matches this source's position: (Show) Vizier logo
6
[details]
02h 49m 21.59s -57° 48′ 01.6″ 11.7′′ Good 11.0′ 3.7 ks Vizier logo
7
[details]
02h 47m 41.67s -58° 01′ 28.1″ 5.5′′ Reasonable 8.5′ 4.1 ks Vizier logo

1 Radius, 90% confidence.
2 Indicates how likely the source is to be real. See the 1SXPS documentation.
* The position was enhanced using astrometry derived from the Swift UVOT.
The position was astrometrically corrected using the XRT sources and the 2MASS catalogue.


Image

FITS image.

Image of all observations processed so far

Exposure map

FITS exposure map.

Exposure map of all observations processed so far