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GCN Circular 10063

Subject

GRB 091024: Faulkes Telescope North Afterglow Candidate

Date

2009-10-24T09:43:48Z (15 years ago)

From

Carole Mundell at ARI, JMU,Liverpool <cgm@astro.livjm.ac.uk>

C.G. Mundell, Z. Cano (Liverpool, JMU), C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara),
I. A. Steele, A. Melandri, D. Bersier, S. Kobayashi, C.J. Mottram,
R.J. Smith (Liverpool, JMU), A. Gomboc, D. Kopac (U. Ljubljana),
P. O'Brien (U. Leicester) report:

"The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North robotically followed up GRB091024 (SWIFT
trigger 373674; Marshall et al. GCN 10062Not found
 
 
) 3.27 min after the GRB trigger
time. The automatic "detection mode" procedure detected an uncatalogued 
afterglow candidate at:

22:36:59.7   +56:53:23.4    (J2000) uncertainty 0.5"

with magnitude R = 18.1 +/-mag (vs USNOB1)

Observations and analysis are ongoing.

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