GCN Circular 10036
Subject
GRB 091018: ROTSE-III Detection of Optical Counterpart
Date
2009-10-18T21:34:32Z (15 years ago)
From
Brad Schaefer at LSU <schaefer@grb.phys.lsu.edu>
B. E. Schaefer (Louisiana State) and S. B. Pandey (U Mich), report on
behalf of the ROTSE collaboration:
ROTSE-IIIc, located at the H.E.S.S. site at Mt. Gamsberg, Namibia,
responded to GRB 091018 (Swift trigger 373172, Stamatikos et al., GCN
10034). The first image was at 20:57:36.1 UT, 556.6 s after the burst
(11.1 s after the GCN notice time). The unfiltered images are calibrated
relative to USNO A2.0. We detect a new object, not visible in the DSS
(second epoch), with coordinates:
02:08:44.6 -57:32:53.6 (J2000),
with positional uncertainty of 1" or better
start UT mag mlim(of image)
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20:57:36.1 15.4 16.4
With this, we confirm the optical afterglow reported in GCN 10034 as a
UVOT detection. The source is rapidly fading. A jpeg image is available
at
http://www.rotse.net/images/gsb373172_3c01_img.jpg Note that the object
numbered 14 (in the lower of the two circles) is the candidate in
question.
Continuing observations are in progress.