GCN Circular 10969
Subject
GRB 100724A, GROND detection of an afterglow candidate
Date
2010-07-24T01:21:28Z (14 years ago)
From
Sylvio Klose at TLS Tautenburg <klose@tls-tautenburg.de>
F. Olivares E., J. Greiner, P. Afonso (all MPE Garching),
and S. Klose (TLS Tautenburg) report on behalf of the GROND team:
GROND (Greiner et al. 2008, PASP 120, 405), the 7-channel imager mounted
at the 2.2m ESO/MPI telescope on La Silla, started follow-up observations
of GRB 100724A (Swift trigger 429868; Markwardt et al. 2010, GCN 10968) on
July 24 at 0:45 UT (about 3 min after the trigger).
Within the revised 2.4 arcsec XRT error circle we find an afterglow
candidate at position RA, Dec (J2000) = 12:58:10.4, -11:06:09, visible
in all bands. We conclude that the redshift is less than 3.5.
Observations are ongoing.