TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8117 SUBJECT: GRB 080822B: Swift detection of a burst DATE: 08/08/22 21:27:55 GMT FROM: Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC S. T. Holland (CRESST/USRA/GSFC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. R. Cummings (NASA/UMBC), V. Mangano (INAF-IASFPA), F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), C. Pagani (PSU), D. M. Palmer (LANL), M. Perri (ASDC), B. Preger (ASDC), R. L. C. Starling (U Leicester) and G. Stratta (ASDC) report on behalf of the Swift Team: At 21:02:52 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and located GRB 080822B (trigger=321376). Swift did not slew to this burst because of the Moon observing constraint. It will come out of Moon constraint early 26 Aug 08 UT. The BAT on-board calculated location is RA, Dec 63.495, +25.743, which is RA(J2000) = 04h 13m 59s Dec(J2000) = +25d 44' 34" with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including systematic uncertainty). The BAT TDRSS light curve does not show anything significant which is typical for an image trigger. Burst Advocate for this burst is S. T. Holland (sholland AT milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov). Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information regarding Swift followup of this burst. In extremely urgent cases, after trying the Burst Advocate, you can contact the Swift PI by phone (see Swift TOO web site for information: http://www.swift.psu.edu/too.html.) [GCN OPS NOTE(22aug08): Per author's request, the missing "B" suffix on the burst name was added.]