TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27973 SUBJECT: Swift-XRT observations of IceCube 200615A DATE: 20/06/17 07:53:24 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), T. Gregoire (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), H. A. Ayala Solares (PSU), D.F. Cowen (PSU), J. DeLaunay (PSU) , D. B. Fox (PSU), A. Keivani (Columbia U.), F. Krauss (PSU), F.E. Marshell (GSFC) J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester) report: Swift observed the field of IceCube 200615A (GCN Circ. 27950) between 08:58:51 UT 2020 June 15 and 11:12:28 UT on 2020 June 16, collecting a total of 12.8 ks of cleaned photon counting (PC) mode data. The observations used a 7-point tiling pattern with a radius of ~0.5 degrees. We found 9 X-ray sources, as detailed below. All of these are either known X-ray sources consistent with catalogued fluxes, or are unknown but with count rates consistent with the previous non-detections. We therefore do not claim any of them as the likely counterpart to IceCube 200615A The 3-sigma upper limit in the field was in the range 3.6-6.4 x 10^-3 ct/sec. The detected sources were: Source 1: RA (J2000): `09h 31m 17.80s` = 142.82418 deg Dec (J2000): `+03d 31' 18.4"` = 3.52179 deg Err(radius): 2.5" Count rate (0.3-10 keV): 0.040 ( +/- 0.004) Flux (0.3-10 keV): 1.72 (+/- 0.19) x 10^-12 Notes: This source corresponds to 1RXS J093117.6+033146. Source 2: RA (J2000): `09h 31m 00.25s` = 142.75103 deg Dec (J2000): `+03d 30' 02.6"` = 3.50071 deg Err(radius): 6.9" Count rate (0.3-10 keV): 2.3 (+1.7, -1.1) x 10^-3 Flux (0.3-10 keV): 10 (+7, -5) x 10^-14 Notes: This does not match a catalogued X-ray source, but the RASS 3-sigma upper limit at this position corresponds to 0.028 ct/sec in XRT. WARNING: This was a low significance detection which may well be spurious. Source 3: RA (J2000): `09h 30m 32.99s` = 142.63746 deg Dec (J2000): `+03d 44' 43.2"` = 3.74534 deg Err(radius): 4.0" Count rate (0.3-10 keV): 0.020 ( +/- 0.004) Flux (0.3-10 keV): 8.5 (+1.8, -1.6) x 10^-13 Notes: This does not match a catalogued X-ray source, but the RASS 3-sigma upper limit at this position corresponds to 0.031 ct/sec in XRT. The position is consistent with 2MASX J09303302+0344432 Source 4: RA (J2000): `09h 33m 04.66s` = 143.26942 deg Dec (J2000): `+03d 56' 42.4"` = 3.94512 deg Err(radius): 5.6" Count rate (0.3-10 keV): 8.7 (+3.1, -2.5) x 10^-3 Flux (0.3-10 keV): 3.8 (+1.3, -1.1) x 10^-13 Notes: This source corresponds to 1RXS J093305.7+035648. Source 5: RA (J2000): `09h 30m 36.31s` = 142.65130 deg Dec (J2000): `+03d 31' 25.3"` = 3.52369 deg Err(radius): 5.0" Count rate (0.3-10 keV): 3.4 (+1.6, -1.2) x 10^-3 Flux (0.3-10 keV): 1.5 (+0.7, -0.5) x 10^-13 Notes: This does not match a catalogued X-ray source, but the RASS 3-sigma upper limit at this position corresponds to 0.021 ct/sec in XRT. WARNING: This was a low significance detection which may well be spurious. Source 6: RA (J2000): `09h 32m 01.68s` = 143.00700 deg Dec (J2000): `+03d 18' 57.7"` = 3.31602 deg Err(radius): 5.8" Count rate (0.3-10 keV): 7.8 (+2.8, -2.3) x 10^-3 Flux (0.3-10 keV): 3.34 (+1.22, -0.98) x 10^-13 Notes: This does not match a catalogued X-ray source, but the RASS 3-sigma upper limit at this position corresponds to 0.12 ct/sec in XRT. The position is consistent with QSO J0932+0318 Source 7: RA (J2000): `09h 30m 57.98s` = 142.74159 deg Dec (J2000): `+03d 31' 51.0"` = 3.53083 deg Err(radius): 4.4" Count rate (0.3-10 keV): 1.95 (+1.20, -0.86) x 10^-3 Flux (0.3-10 keV): 8 (+5, -4) x 10^-14 Notes: This does not match a catalogued X-ray source, but the RASS 3-sigma upper limit at this position corresponds to 0.027 ct/sec in XRT. WARNING: This was a low significance detection which may well be spurious. Source 8: RA (J2000): `09h 32m 53.51s` = 143.22296 deg Dec (J2000): `+04d 05' 00.4"` = 4.08343 deg Err(radius): 5.2" Count rate (0.3-10 keV): 5.4 (+2.6, -1.9) x 10^-3 Flux (0.3-10 keV): 2.31 (+1.10, -0.84) x 10^-13 Notes: This does not match a catalogued X-ray source, but the RASS 3-sigma upper limit at this position corresponds to 0.035 ct/sec in XRT. Source 9: RA (J2000): `09h 30m 58.40s` = 142.74333 deg Dec (J2000): `+03d 48' 33.3"` = 3.80925 deg Err(radius): 4.9" Count rate (0.3-10 keV): 2.3 (+2.1, -1.3) x 10^-3 Flux (0.3-10 keV): 10 (+9, -6) x 10^-14 Notes: This does not match a catalogued X-ray source, but the RASS 3-sigma upper limit at this position corresponds to 0.017 ct/sec in XRT. The position is consistent with SDSS-C4-DR3 1119 WARNING: This was a low significance detection which may well be spurious. All errors are at the 90% confidence level, fluxes are observed flux in erg cm^-2 s^-1 and are calculated assuming an absorbed power-law with NH=3e20 and Gamma=1.7