TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 13879 SUBJECT: GRB 121017A: Enhanced Swift-XRT position DATE: 12/10/18 00:37:34 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester M.R. Goad, J.P. Osborne, A.P. Beardmore and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team. Using 388 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 1 UVOT images for GRB 121017A, we find an astrometrically corrected X-ray position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment and matching UVOT field sources to the USNO-B1 catalogue): RA, Dec = 288.83026, -1.60418 which is equivalent to: RA (J2000): 19h 15m 19.26s Dec (J2000): -01d 36' 15.0" with an uncertainty of 2.0 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence). This position may be improved as more data are received. The latest position can be viewed at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_positions. Position enhancement is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401) and Evans et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177). This circular was automatically generated, and is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.