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GRB 171010A: Swift observation summary

Mission:Fermi/LAT
GRB RA:66.740°
GRB Dec:-10.540°
GRB Err:14.4 arcmin
T0:2017-10-10 19:00:45 UT
Galactic:205.65° -36.81°
Galactic NH:5.17× 1020 cm-2
Galactic E(B-V):0.07843848
Sun distance:126.82°
Sun angle:8.64 [hr](West of Sun)
Moon distance:34.39°
Visibility of this field.
Data analysed so far:
  • ObsID: 00020778001 with 5.0 ks exposure.

Source 2 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 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
2
[details]
04h 26m 19.44s -10° 27′ 47.1″ 1.4′′ Good 10.5′ 5.0 ks The source is 4.2-σ above the RASS limit. Vizier logo

1 Radius, 90% confidence.
2 Indicates how likely the source is to be real. See the 2SXPS 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.


Find an upper limit.

Sources found so far

So far 4 sources have been found in the XRT data. 1 sources match catalogued sources.

# RA (J2000) Dec (J2000) Err901 Detection
Flag2
Dist from
LAT pos
Exposure Notes Vizier
1
[details]
04h 26m 26.30s -10° 24′ 13.5″ 6.8′′ Poor 11.2′ 3.6 ks Vizier logo
2
[details]
04h 26m 19.44s -10° 27′ 47.1″ 1.4′′ Good 10.5′ 5.0 ks The source is 4.2-σ above the RASS limit. Vizier logo
3
[details]
04h 26m 37.52s -10° 32′ 52.4″ 5.9′′ Good 5.0′ 5.0 ks Matches SIMBAD source: MCG-02-12-015, 8.9″ away. Vizier logo
4
[details]
04h 26m 22.59s -10° 26′ 30.9″ 7.9′′ Reasonable 10.4′ 5.0 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

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FITS image.

Image of all observations processed so far

Exposure map

FITS exposure map.

Exposure map of all observations processed so far