TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 14036 SUBJECT: GRB 121202A: Swift-XRT observations DATE: 12/12/02 06:10:34 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), D.N. Burrows (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), S. Campana (INAF-OAB) and G. Cusumano (INAF-IASF PA) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: The XRT began observing the field of GRB 121202A at 05:07:09.7 UT, 2824.7 seconds after the BAT trigger. Using promptly downlinked data we find an uncatalogued X-ray source located at RA, Dec 256.79704, 23.94886 which is equivalent to: RA(J2000) = 17h 07m 11.29s Dec(J2000) = +23d 56' 55.9" with an uncertainty of 3.7 arcseconds (radius, 90% containment). This location is 60 arcseconds from the BAT onboard position, within the BAT error circle. This position may be improved as more data are received; the latest position is available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/sper. A power-law fit to a spectrum formed from promptly downlinked event data gives a column density in excess of the Galactic value (3.91 x 10^20 cm^-2, Kalberla et al. 2005), with an excess column of 3.9 (+2.19/-1.90) x 10^21 cm^-2 (90% confidence).