TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 5471 SUBJECT: GRB 060825: Swift detection of a burst DATE: 06/08/25 03:27:14 GMT FROM: Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC G. Sato (GSFC/ISAS), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), M. M. Chester (PSU), N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), S. T. Holland (GSFC/USRA), S. Immler (GSFC/USRA), J. A. Kennea (PSU), H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), K. M. McLean (LANL/UTD), K. L. Page (U Leicester) and D. M. Palmer (LANL) report on behalf of the Swift Team: At 02:59:57 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and located GRB 060825 (trigger=226382). Swift slewed immediately to the burst. The BAT on-board calculated location is RA,Dec 18.102, +55.805 {01h 12m 24s, +55d 48' 18"} (J2000) with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve shows a single bright peak with some structure and a duration of about 15 sec. The peak count rate was ~4000 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~1 sec after the trigger. The XRT began taking data at 03:01:03 UT, 66 seconds after the BAT trigger. The XRT on-board centroid algorithm did not find a source in the image, however ground analysis of quicklook data reveals a faint uncatalogued point source at the following coordinates: RA(J2000) = 01h 12m 28.9s, Dec(J2000) = +55d 47m 46.4s with an error of 5.4 arcseconds radius (90% confidence). This position is 49 arcseconds from the BAT position. UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 100 seconds with the White (160-650 nm) filter starting 72 seconds after the BAT trigger. No afterglow candidate has been found in the initial data products. The 2.7'x2.7' sub-image covers 100% of the XRT error circle. The typical 3-sigma upper limit has been about 18.5 mag. The 8'x8' region for the list of sources generated on-board covers 100% of the BAT error circle. The list of sources is typically complete to about 18 mag. No correction has been made for the expected extinction corresponding to E(B-V) of 0.57.