GCN Circular 14875
Subject
GRB 130612A: Liverpool Telescope Afterglow detection
Event
Date
2013-06-12T03:58:00Z (12 years ago)
From
Andrea Melandri at INAF-OAB <andrea.melandri@brera.inaf.it>
A. Melandri (INAF-OAB), C.G. Mundell (LJMU) and A. Gomboc (U.
Ljubljana) )report:
The 2-m Liverpool Telescope robotically followed up GRB130612A (Swift
trigger 557976, Racusin et al., GCN 14874) ~16 min after the GRB
trigger time observing with SLOAN-gri filters.
The automatic LT-TRAP procedure detected an uncatalogued fading source
candidate at:
RA = 17:19:10.57
Dec = +16:43:11.6 (J2000)
with magnitude R~18.9 mag (vs USNOB1) ~16 min after the burst
trigger. The object is clearly fading in all filters.
Observations and analysis are ongoing.