Skip to main content
New! Circulars over Kafka, Heartbeat Topic, and Schema v4.1.0. See news and announcements

GCN Circular 17178

Subject
GRB 141212A: VLA upper limit
Date
2014-12-13T09:52:03Z (10 years ago)
From
Wen-fai Fong at U of Arizona <wfong@email.arizona.edu>
W. Fong (U. Arizona) and B. A. Zauderer (Harvard) report:

"We observed the field of the short-duration GRB 141212A (Ukwatta et al.,
GCN 17158) with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) beginning on 2014
Dec 12.96 UT (10.9 hr post-burst) at a mean frequency of 6 GHz. In 1 hour
of observations, we do not detect any radio source within or around the
enhanced XRT position (Osborne et al., GCN 17164). We therefore place a
3-sigma limit of ~25 microJy on the radio afterglow of GRB 141212A at 10.9
hr after the burst.

We thank the VLA staff for quickly executing these observations."
Looking for U.S. government information and services? Visit USA.gov