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GCN Circular 14362

Subject
GRB 130408A: Liverpool Telescope Optical candidate detection
Date
2013-04-08T22:57:31Z (12 years ago)
From
Andrea Melandri at INAF-OAB <andrea.melandri@brera.inaf.it>
A. Melandri (INAF-OAB), J. Japelj (U. Ljubljana), F.J. Virgili(LJMU),  
C.G. Mundell (LJMU) report:

The 2-m Liverpool Telescope robotically followed up GRB130408A (Swift  
trigger 553132, Lien et al., GCN 14361) 19.42 min after the GRB  
trigger time observing with SLOAN-gri filters.

The automatic LT-TRAP procedure detected an uncatalogued fading source  
candidate at:

RA=08:57:37.30
Dec=-32:21:38.90    (J2000)

with magnitude R~16.5 mag (vs USNOB1) ~20 min after the burst trigger.  
The object is clearly fading in all filters and we suggest this is the  
optical afterglow of GRB130408A.

Observations and analysis are ongoing.
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