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Swift Trigger: 331093

Presumed name: GRB 081008

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BAT	18h 39m 56.88s, -57° 27′ 50.4″
position:	(279.987, -57.464 ± 180″)
XRT	18h 39m 49.92s, -57° 25′ 54.8″
position:	(279.95800, -57.43189 ± 1.9″)
UVOT	No position available.
Galactic NHI:	0.00×100 cm-2
Galactic E(B-V):	0.095 mag

Best RA:	18h 39m 49.92s	= 279.95800 d
Best Dec:	-57° 25′ 54.8″	= -57.43189 d
Gal Lat:
Gal Long:
Sun angle:	not found

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GCN Notices for this burst.

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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.

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Known transients within 5′ of the GRB

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Offset (′′)	RA	Dec	Date reported	Source	Misc	Query
0.5′′	279.95776	-57.43188		GCN #8347	GRB 081008: Enhanced Swift-XRT position
2.0′′	279.95782	-57.43135		GCN #8348	GRB081008: Swift/UVOT observations
2.7′′	279.95683	-57.43150		GCN #8372	GRB 081008: Galaxy associated with z=1.967 absorber
2.8′′	279.95867	-57.43119		GCN #8344	GRB 081008: Swift detection of a burst with optical afterglow
2.9′′	279.95833	-57.43111		GCN #8367	GRB 081008 optical upper limit
2.9′′	279.95833	-57.43111		GCN #8343	GRB 081008: ROTSE-III Detection of Optical Counterpart
19.8′′	279.96800	-57.43300		GCN #8351	GRB 081008� Swift-BAT refined analysis

There are 13 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
20.4	279.9683	-57.4330	GRB 081008

* 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
2.9	279.9588	-57.4311			NED
13.2	279.9629	-57.4293		I=15.2, R1=15.9	USNO-B1
14.4	279.9631	-57.4290		I=14.3, R1=14.8	USNO-B1
36.6	279.9698	-57.4398		B2=19.9, I=17.1, R1=16.3, R2=17.6	USNO-B1
37.8	279.9640	-57.4419		I=12.0, R1=13.5	USNO-B1
43.5	279.9753	-57.4396		B2=19.7, I=17.8, R1=19.0, R2=19.1	USNO-B1
43.8	279.9536	-57.4438		B2=18.3, I=16.7, R1=16.4, R2=17.0	USNO-B1
52.3	279.9824	-57.4381		B2=19.8, I=18.1, R1=18.4, R2=19.1	USNO-B1
61.5	279.9737	-57.4171		B2=21.1, R2=20.0	USNO-B1
64.4	279.9255	-57.4281		B=22.3	SSS

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

There are 200 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
10.7	279.9540	-57.4340	B2=19.5, I=16.8, R1=17.3, R2=17.7	USNO-B1
10.9	279.9540	-57.4340	h=15.2, j=15.8, k=15.1	2MASS
11.5	279.9525	-57.4307	B2=18.1, I=16.6, R1=16.5, R2=16.9	USNO-B1
11.8	279.9625	-57.4297	h=14.5, j=15.1, k=14.3	2MASS
12.0	279.9522	-57.4307	h=15.6, j=15.9, k=15.8	2MASS
12.6	279.9616	-57.4348	B2=18.6, I=16.9, R1=16.9, R2=17.2	USNO-B1
12.9	279.9613	-57.4350	h=16.0, j=16.6, k=15.8	2MASS
15.8	279.9634	-57.4286	B2=16.8, I=14.9, R1=15.6, R2=15.3	USNO-B1
16.7	279.9636	-57.4284	h=15.1, j=15.4, k=15.1	2MASS
28.1	279.9587	-57.4397	B2=20.7, I=18.3, R1=19.0, R2=19.2	USNO-B1

Queried USNO-B1, SDSS, 2MASS.

There are 406 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.