GCN Circular 1842
Subject
GRB 020819: afterglow candidate
Event
Date
2003-02-01T00:07:15Z (23 years ago)
From
Dale A. Frail at NRAO <dfrail@nrao.edu>
D. A. Frail (NRAO), and E. Berger (Caltech) report on behalf of a
larger collaboration:
"We have continued to monitor the HETE burst GRB020819 with the VLA at
8.46 GHz. Two radio sources were identified within the initial
130-arcsec error circle of the SXC (GCN1508). The first source has
remained constant (within the radiometric errors) at about 380 uJy.
The second source has declined from a peak of 315 uJy on 2002 August
21.37 UT and is currently undetectable (i.e. <35 uJy).
The variable source, located at r.a.=23:27:19.475, dec.=06:15:55.95
(epoch J2000) with conservative errors of +/-0.5 arcsec, is 98-arcsec
away from the center of the revised SXC 64-arcsec error circle
(GCN1526). From previous radio afterglow searches we note that the
probability of detecting such extreme variability from non-GRBs is
rare (<2% probability over the area surveyed). We request observers to
re-examine this position for an optical afterglow.
The entire radio dataset can be found at:
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~dfrail/grb_public.shtml
An 8.46 GHz light curve is at
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~dfrail/g020819_lcx.ps
This message may be quoted."