GCN Circular 26560

Subject

GRB 191221B: LCO Optical Detection

Event

GRB 191221B

Date

2019-12-22T18:20:35Z (7 years ago)

From

Robert Strausbaugh at U. of the Virgin Islands <robert.strausbaugh@uvi.edu>

R. Strausbaugh (U. of the Virgin Islands), A. Cucchiara (U. of the Virgin Islands/College of Marin) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:

We observed Swift GRB 191221B (Laha et al., GCN 26534Loading...
 
 ) with the LCO 1-m Sinistro instrument at the Sutherland South African Astronomical Observatory site on December 22, from 00:30 to 01:11 UT (corresponding to 3.5 to 4.2 hours after the GRB trigger time) with the Bessel R and I filters.

We performed a series of 10x90s exposures in each band. We detect a bright source in the Swift-BAT refined error region (Laha et al., GCN 26536Loading...
 
 ) that is not present in either USNO-B1.0 or 2MASS  surveys with the following  magnitudes:

R = 16.50 +/- 0.01

I = 15.86 +/- 0.01

This flux measurement is calibrated against several USNO-B1.0 objects near the GRB location and is not corrected for Galactic Extinction.