TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  33429
SUBJECT: GRB 230307A: Swift-XRT observations
DATE:    23/03/08 23:17:17 GMT
FROM:    Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>

D.N. Burrows (PSU), J. D. Gropp (PSU), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester),
K.L. Page (U. Leicester), V. D'Elia (SSDC & INAF-OAR), B. Sbarufatti
(INAF-OAB), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), S. Dichiara (PSU) and P.A. Evans (U.
Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:

Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the
Fermi/GBM-detected burst GRB 230307A (Dalessi et al. GCN Circ. 33407)
in a series of observations tiled on the sky. The total exposure time
is 8.6 ks, distributed over 32 tiles; the maximum exposure at a single
sky location was 1.6 ks. The data were collected between T0+76.4 ks and
T0+100.9 ks, and are entirely in Photon Counting (PC) mode. 

Two X-ray sources have been detected within the improved IPN error box
(Kozyrev et al., GCN Circ. 33425), that has been fully covered by
Swift/XRT observations.


Source 2:
   RA (J2000): 04h 03m 26.24s = 60.85935°
   Dec (J2000): -75° 22′ 43.8″ = -75.3788°
   Error: 3.4″ (radius, 90% conf., enhanced)
   Count-rate: 0.019 (±0.004) ct s-1
   Distance: 36.6 arcsec from IPN position

Source 3:
   RA (J2000): 04h 03m 57.93s = 60.99137°
   Dec (J2000): -75° 21′ 26.8″ = -75.3574°
   Error: 7.1″ (radius, 90% conf.)
   Count-rate: 2.6 (+1.9, -1.3) ×10-3 ct s-1
   Distance: 175 arcsec from IPN position


Source 2 is below the RASS limit and shows no definitive signs of
fading. Therefore, at the present time we cannot confirm this as the
afterglow. Source 3 is at a position consistent with a QSO candidate
(Wu et al., 2023, RAA, 23, 025006) and therefore is likely unrelated to
GRB 230307A. Further observations are ongoing. 


The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis of the tiled XRT
observations, including a position-specific upper limit calculator, are
available at https://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/TILED_GRB00110. 

This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.