GCN Circular 19808
Subject
GRB 160816A: LCOGT-FTN optical candidate
Date
2016-08-17T08:17:39Z (8 years ago)
From
Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy <guidorzi@fe.infn.it>
C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), S. Kobayashi, I.A. Steele (LJMU), C.G. Mundell
(U. Bath), A. Gomboc (U. Nova Gorica) on behalf of a large collaboration
report:
The 2-m LCOGT Faulkes Telescope North began observing Fermi-LAT GRB
160816A (Racusin et al., GCN 19802) on August 17, 07:23:08 UT (13.9
hours after the burst trigger). Inside the Swift-XRT error circle of the
X-ray afterglow candidate (Kennea et al., GCN 19806) we find an
uncatalogued source at the following position:
RA(J2000)= 21:29:38.58
Dec(J2000)= +37:07:58.7
with an uncertainty of 1.0 arcsec and r~21.0 +- 0.2 mag (AB).