TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 15827 SUBJECT: GRB 140213A: Swift-XRT observations DATE: 14/02/13 21:14:17 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), M. Perri (ASDC) and G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: The XRT began observing the field of GRB 140213A at 20:18:43.0 UT, 3425.3 seconds after the BAT trigger. Using promptly downlinked data we find an uncatalogued X-ray source located at RA, Dec 105.15145, -73.13570 which is equivalent to: RA(J2000) = 07h 00m 36.35s Dec(J2000) = -73d 08' 08.5" with an uncertainty of 3.6 arcseconds (radius, 90% containment). This location is 69 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 (1.13 x 10^21 cm^-2, Kalberla et al. 2005), with an excess column of 2.4 (+1.68/-1.51) x 10^21 cm^-2 (90% confidence).