TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 6038 SUBJECT: GRB070124: Swift-XRT Observation DATE: 07/01/26 18:07:16 GMT FROM: Loredana Vetere at PSU L. Vetere, J. Racusin (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: The Swift-XRT began observing the field containing the IPN burst GRB070124 (Hurley et al., GCN 6022) at 2007-01-25 15:36:39.8881 UT almost 31 hr after the trigger. From the analysis of a 7.4 ks photon counting image, 6 sources are found with the following positions and count rates: cts/s Ra Dec 1 1.78E-03+/-6.1E-04 14 44 50.7 +54 34 11.8 2 1.95E-03+/-6.7E-04 14 46 15.2 +54 37 01.8 3 1.34E-03+/-5.8E-04 14 46 18.2 +54 34 23.0 4 1.34E-03+/-5.8E-04 14 44 53.9 +54 26 31.9 5 1.39E-03+/-6.0E-04 14 46 18.6 +54 38 06.5 6 1.66E-03+/-6.8E-04 14 46 07.7 +54 25 51.0 Only source number 4 is actually inside the IPN error box and it is 0.042 arcmin from a USNO-B1.0 Catalog's source. The other five can all be identified with close galaxies. In particular source 5 is UGC9522 an edge-on Sab galaxy with z=0.03866 that is 1.5 arcmin distant from the nearest edge of the IPN error box. At present we cannot tell whether these sources are fading or not. Further observations are planned. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.