GCN Circular 19269
Subject
GRB 160408A: Gemini afterglow confirmation
Date
2016-04-09T15:04:49Z (9 years ago)
From
Andrew Levan at U.of Leicester <A.J.Levan@warwick.ac.uk>
A.J. Levan (U. Warwick), N.R. Tanvir (U. Leicester), A. Cucchiara (GSFC/STScI), W. Fong (Arizona), D. Perley (DARK/NBI) report for a larger collaboration:
���We obtained a second epoch of Gemini-North observations of the short GRB 160408A (Evans et al. GCN 19260, Palmer et al. GCN 19263) on 9 April 2016, approximately 22 hours after our previous observations. Although the images are somewhat shallower than the first epoch, the previously identified source A (Levan & Tanvir GCN 19262) has clearly faded by at least a magnitude between the two epochs, and is not detected in our new imaging. This confirms it as the optical afterglow of GRB 160408A.���