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Swift Trigger: 311159

Presumed name: GRB 080506

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BAT	21h 57m 44.40s, +39° 00′ 07.2″
position:	(329.435, +39.002 ± 180″)
XRT	21h 57m 41.51s, +38° 59′ 05.7″
position:	(329.42296, 38.98491 ± 4.32″)
UVOT	No position available.
Galactic NHI:	0.00×100 cm-2
Galactic E(B-V):	0.226 mag

Best RA:	21h 57m 41.51s	= 329.42296 d
Best Dec:	+38° 59′ 05.7″	= 38.98491 d
Gal Lat:
Gal Long:
Sun angle:	not found

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GCN Notices for this burst.

View this region in Aladin.

Observability of this burst for Swift.

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Sun angle for this burst.

UVOT data

Blink images with DSS (link via GSFC)

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XRT SPER data

SPER results page for this trigger.

No SPER data received yet. Refresh this page to check again.

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Known transients within 5′ of the GRB

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Offset (′′)	RA	Dec	Date reported	Source	Misc	Query
3.1′′	329.42406	38.98496		GCN #7688	GRB 080506: TLS afterglow detection in VRIZ
3.8′′	329.42429	38.98511		GCN #7685	GRB 080506: Swift detection of a burst with optical afterglow
3.8′′	329.42429	38.98469		GCN #7687	GRB 080506: Enhanced Swift-XRT position
150.3′′	329.46708	38.96111		GCN #7692	GRB 080506� Swift-BAT refined analysis

There are 11 matches in total. See the full table for details.

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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
42.9	329.4333	38.9761	USNO-A2.0 1275-16800533	B=15.9, R=15.1
53.9	329.4422	38.9847	2MASS J21574613+3859051	B=16.0, H=13.706, J=14.104, K=13.642, R=15.1
192.3	329.4342	38.9322	UGC 11862	B=16.5

There are 3 SIMBAD objects within the position error. The full list is here.

* 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*	Redshift		Catalogue	Query
3.8	329.4242	38.9847			NED
43.4	329.4333	38.9759		B1=16.0, B2=16.4, I=14.0, R1=14.7, R2=14.9	USNO-B1
56.8	329.4148	38.9993		B2=20.2, I=17.8, R1=18.7, R2=18.8	USNO-B1
58.0	329.4252	39.0009		B2=19.8, R2=18.6	USNO-B1
61.7	329.4255	38.9679		I=18.5, R2=20.4	USNO-B1
64.1	329.4456	38.9878		B2=20.8, I=18.4, R1=19.3, R2=19.5	USNO-B1
66.0	329.4466	38.9846		B1=19.6, B2=19.8, I=17.6, R1=18.9	USNO-B1
71.7	329.4049	38.9708		I=18.6, R2=20.2	USNO-B1
71.8	329.4479	38.9804		R1=18.9, R2=19.6	USNO-B1
72.3	329.3994	38.9766		B1=18.9, B2=19.2, I=17.3, R1=18.0, R2=17.6	USNO-B1

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

There are 105 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	Query
13.4	329.4182	38.9848	B2=20.7, R1=19.1, R2=19.8	USNO-B1
15.2	329.4269	38.9878	B2=21.5, I=18.6, R1=19.5, R2=19.9	USNO-B1
24.4	329.4299	38.9890	B1=20.4, B2=20.8	USNO-B1
30.4	329.4268	38.9770	B1=20.2, B2=20.3, I=16.0, R1=18.3, R2=17.4	USNO-B1
31.2	329.4268	38.9768	h=15.0, j=15.7, k=14.7	2MASS
32.5	329.4330	38.9804	B2=20.7, I=18.0, R1=19.1, R2=19.0	USNO-B1
32.5	329.4330	38.9804	h=16.2, j=16.7, k=15.7	2MASS
37.0	329.4229	38.9952	B1=18.9, B2=19.7, I=17.7, R1=18.7, R2=18.0	USNO-B1
40.4	329.4136	38.9934	B2=20.5, I=18.6, R1=19.2, R2=19.5	USNO-B1
41.8	329.4161	38.9746	B1=17.9, B2=18.2, I=15.8, R1=16.7, R2=16.7	USNO-B1

Queried USNO-B1, SDSS, 2MASS.

There are 392 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.