[AAVSO-HEN] GRB070330: Correction to UVOT position

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Thu Apr 19 08:53:11 EDT 2007


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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  6307
SUBJECT: GRB070330: Correction to UVOT position
DATE:    07/04/19 12:52:41 GMT
FROM:    Patricia Schady at MSSL/Swift  <ps at mssl.ucl.ac.uk>

P. Schady (MSSL-UCL), D. Grupe (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team

An error has been noted in the UVOT position for the optical afterglow of 
GRB 070330 (GCN 6238). There is a typo in the RA expressed as degrees. The 
correct refined UVOT afterglow position is
RA (J2000)  = 17:58:09.98 (269.5416)
Dec (J2000) = -63:47:34.80,6 (-63.7930)
to a certainty of 0.5".



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