GCN Circular 16659
Subject
GRB 140801A : Virtual Telescope optical observations
Date
2014-08-02T09:44:48Z (10 years ago)
From
Gianluca Masi at Bellatrix Astronomical Obs <gianluca@bellatrixobservatory.org>
G. Masi, the Virtual Telescope Project - Italy, reports:
I observed the field of GRB 140801A (Fermi trigger 428612396) with with the 17"
robotic unit part of the Virtual Telescope (Ceccano, Italy) at 2 Aug. 2014,
00:10:39 UT, 5.15 hours seconds after the burst.
An optical source is visible where described by Gorbovskoy et al. (GCN 16653)
and D. Xu et al (GCN 16656) in a image coming from the sum of three, 180-seconds
exposures, unfiltered. The position of the source is RA: 02 56 16.46 +30 56 17.9
(J2000.0, mean residuals of 0.2") and the magnitude was estimated to be 19.6,
assuming R mags for the reference stars from UCAC-4.
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