GCN Circular 15840
Subject
GRB140215A: Skynet PROMPT Optical Observations
Date
2014-02-15T05:45:47Z (10 years ago)
From
Aaron LaCluyze at U.North Carolina <lacluyze@email.unc.edu>
A. LaCluyze, J. Haislip, D. Reichart, A. Trotter, A. Foster, N. Frank, K. Ivarsen, J. Moore, M. Nysewander, R. Beauchemin, T. Berger, M. Carroll, H. T. Cromartie, R. Egger, M. Hinckle, A. Ireland, M. Maples, L. Scott, and J. A. Crain report:
Skynet observed the Swift-BAT localization of GRB 140215A (Markwardt et al., GCN 15837, Swift trigger 586680) with six of the PROMPT telescopes located at CTIO in Chile. Observations began at ~59s after the burst in BVRI and luminance. We detect a fading optical source in all bands at the position of the source detected by Markwardt et al.
A preliminary light curve calibrated to USNOB and NOMAD catalog stars can be found at:
http://www.skynet.unc.edu/grb/grb140215a.png
Further observations are ongoing.
