GCN Circular 12567
Subject
GRB 111117A: Gemini host observation
Event
Date
2011-11-18T05:36:11Z (14 years ago)
From
Antonino Cucchiara at LBNL <acucchiara@lbl.gov>
A. Cucchiara (UCSC/UCO Lick) and S. B. Cenko (UC Berkeley) report
on behalf of a large collaboration:
On November 18.07 UT we observed the field of the short-hard
GRB 111117A (Mangano et al., GCN 12559) with the Gemini-South
telescope equipped with the GMOS instrument.
In our 30 minutes co-added image in r' band we clearly detect the
source identified by Andersen et al. and Fong et al.(GCN 12563,
12566): this object appear to be elongated in the SW-NE direction,
suggesting it is indeed the host of GRB 111117A.
Using several SDSS (DR8) objects in the field we obtain a value of
r' = 23.99 +/- 0.11 for this galaxy brightness, consistent
with the one reported by the Magellan Telescope.
We thank the Gemini-South staff for performing these observations,
in particular Pascale Hibon.