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GCN Circular 11464

Subject
GRB 101219A: Gemini-South observations
Date
2010-12-19T04:13:33Z (13 years ago)
From
Daniel Perley at U.C. Berkeley <dperley@astro.berkeley.edu>
D. A. Perley (UC Berkeley), E. Berger (Harvard), S.B. Cenko (UC 
Berkeley), R. Chornock (Harvard), A. J. Levan (Warwick), N. Tanvir 
(Leicester) report:

We observed the position of GRB 101219A (Gelbord et al., GCN 11461) with 
GMOS-S on the Gemini South telescope in the i-band starting at 2010 Dec 
19 13:14:04 UT (43 min after the burst).  In a stack of the first five 
180-sec exposures we detect a faint object within the XRT error circle 
(GCN #11461) at coordinates (J2000):

RA = 04:58:20.478
DEC = -02:32:22.17

The object is also weakly detected in a single r-band frame, and appears 
to be mildly extended in the i-band images.  Further observations and 
analysis are underway.
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