GCN Circular 15430
Subject
GRB 131030A - RoboPol optical afterglow polarimetry
Date
2013-11-01T13:16:41Z (11 years ago)
From
Dmitry Blinov at U of Crete/FORTH <blinov@physics.uoc.gr>
M. Balokovic, T. Hovatta, O. King, T. Pearson, A. Readhead
Caltech, USA
D. Blinov, N. Kylafis, G. Panopoulou, I. Papadakis, I. Papamastorakis,
V. Pavlidou, P. Reig, K. Tassis
University of Crete/FORTH, Greece
P. Khodade, C. Rajarshi, A. Ramaprakash, R. Rouneq
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, India
E. Angelakis, I. Myserlis, L. Fuhrmann, J. A. Zensus
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany
R. Feiler, A. Kus, B. Pazderska, E. Pazderski
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
We observed GRB 131030A (Swift Trigger 576238; Troja et al. GCN 15402)
using the RoboPol (http://robopol.org) polarimeter on the 1.3m Skinakas
observatory telescope (Greece). We confirm the presence of an uncatalogued
source at the location (RA=23h00m16s, Dec=-05d22m05s). Preliminary analysis
showed that emission of the source is linearly polarized at high significance.
Further analysis will be presented elsewhere.
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