GCN Circular 14058
Subject
GRB 121211A - Faulkes Telescope North afterglow confirmation
Date
2012-12-11T14:34:34Z (11 years ago)
From
Jure Japelj at U. of Ljubljana,Slovenia <jure.japelj@fmf.uni-lj.si>
J. Japelj, D. Kopa�� (U. Ljubljana), C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), C. Mundell,
F. Virgili (Liverpool JMU) report on behalf of a large collaboration:
The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North automatically began observing
GRB 121211A (Mangano et al. GCN Circ. 14057) on Dec 11 2012,
13:50:46 UT corresponding to 224 seconds post burst trigger. We confirm
the presence of a fading source at the optical afterglow candidate position
reported by Mangano et al. GCN Circ. 14057. In the first 3x10 s exposure,
we measure a preliminary R magnitude of 17.9 +- 0.3, calibrated against
nearby USNO-B1 stars.