GCN Circular 13411
Subject
GRB 120703A: NOT optical observation
Event
Date
2012-07-04T07:56:33Z (14 years ago)
From
Dong Xu at Weizmann Inst <dong.dark@gmail.com>
D. Xu (WIS), D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo (DARK/NBI), N. R. Tanvir (U.
Leicester), K. Karhunen (U. Turku) report on behalf of a larger
collaboration,
We observed the field of GRB 120703A (Zhang et al., GCN 13408) using
the 2.5m Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) equipped with StanCam.
Observations started at 04:02:42 UT on 2012-07-04 (i.e., 10.62 hr
after the BAT trigger) and 6x300s R-band frames were obtained.
An optical source was marginally detected in the stacked image at coordinates
RA (J2000) = 22:37:25.61
Dec (J2000) = -29:43:23.7
with an uncertainty of ~0.5 arcsec radius, being consistent, but
slightly offset, with the UVOT position. The source had R~21.7
calibrated against nearby USNO star.