TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 15281 SUBJECT: GRB 131001A detected in ground analysis of Swift-BAT data DATE: 13/10/02 03:40:26 GMT FROM: Jay R. Cummings at NASA/GSFC/Swift J. R. Cummings (UMBC/GSFC) reports on behalf of the Swift-BAT team: At 2013-10-01T05:37:24, while Swift was slewing, GRB 131001A occurred. The BAT lightcurve shows a single 5-second long FRED peak. In a mosaic of images created from BAT slew data, a significant source was found at RA, Dec 8.302, +25.557, which is RA (J2000) 00h 33m 12.4s Dec (J2000) 25d 33' 27" with an estimated 90% uncertainty radius of 1.8 arcmin. A Swift TOO has been requested to locate the X-ray afterglow, and approved with the source ID number20297. Observations are in progress.