Skip to main content
Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. See the Operations FAQ for GCN impacts.
New! Super-Kamiokande JSON Notices and Schema v4.5.0. See news and announcements

GCN Circular 20252

Subject
GRB 161214A: fading optical afterglow candidate with the LT
Event
GRB 161214A
Date
2016-12-14T07:46:37Z (9 years ago)
From
Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy <guidorzi@fe.infn.it>
C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), C.G. Mundell (Bath), S. Kobayashi, I.A. Steele 
(LJMU), A. Gomboc (U. Nova Gorica) on behalf of a large collaboration 
report:

The 2-m Liverpool Telescope automatically began observing INTEGRAL GRB 
161214A (Mereghetti et al., GCN 20251) in the SDSS r. Within the 
INTEGRAL error circle we find an uncatalogued fading object at the 
following position:

RA(J2000)=  12:43:00.36
Dec(J2000)= +06:51:50.1

with a 1 arcsec error radius and magnitudes of r=19.66 +- 0.07 at 35 
minutes, and r=19.95 +- 0.07 at 61 minutes post GRB trigger as 
calibrated against nearby SDSS stars.
Questions or comments?
Contact GCN directly.
Have you found a bug in GCN?
Open an issue.
Want to contribute code to GCN?
Get involved on GitHub.

gcn.nasa.gov

A service of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Looking for U.S. government information and services? Visit USA.gov