GCN Circular 18894
Subject
GRB 160117B: Early iTelescope observation
Date
2016-01-19T04:56:17Z (8 years ago)
From
Takanori Sakamoto at AGU <tsakamoto@phys.aoyama.ac.jp>
L. Izzo (URoma1/ICRA), T. Sakamot (AGU)
We observed the field of GRB 160117B (Sonbas et al., GCN 18875; Evans et al., GCN 18883;
Yurkov et al., GCN 18877; Kruehler et al., GCN 18878; Malesani et al., GCN 18884;
Hentunen et al., GCN 18885) with the iTelescope.Net (http://www.itelescope.net)
T17 (Plane Wave CDK 0.43m) telescope located at the Siding Spring Observatory (Australia).
A single image of 300 s was taken in the R filter, starting at 14:10:03 UT, 636 s
after the GRB trigger. We detect the GRB optical afterglow candidate and obtain
a photometry estimate of R = 17.523 +- 0.126 using the USNO-B1 catalog.
An image of the field of view can be seen at http://goo.gl/aesww1