GCN Circular 19262
Subject
GRB 160408A: Gemini optical observations
Date
2016-04-08T10:45:28Z (8 years ago)
From
Andrew Levan at U.of Leicester <A.J.Levan@warwick.ac.uk>
A.J. Levan (U. Warwick) and N.R. Tanvir (U. Leicester) report for a larger collaboration:
���We observed the location of the short GRB 160408A (Evans et al. GCN 19260) with Gemini-North and GMOS. Observations were taken in the r-band, starting at 07:23 UT, approximately 58 minutes after the burst. Several objects are present in the field close to the refined XRT position (Osborne et al. GCN 19261). The closest objects are a compact source (A) and a more extended galaxy (B). The locations of these sources are:
Source A:
RA(J2000) 08h 10m 29.81s
DEC(J2000) 71d 07��� 43.7���
Source B:
RA(J2000) 08h 10m 29.32s
DEC(J2000) 71d 07��� 40.5���
with an uncertainty of approximately 0.3��� in each co-ordinate. Conditions were not photometric at the time of the observations, but comparison with USNO-B1 sources in the field of view suggests that source A has a magnitude of r~24.5, source B is approximately a magnitude brighter.
We thank the Gemini staff for the rapid execution of these observations.���