GCN Circular 2902
Subject
GRB 041223: Detection of Optical Transient with LCO40
Event
Date
2004-12-24T07:31:22Z (21 years ago)
From
Edo Berger at Carnegie Obs <eberger@ociw.edu>
E. Berger (Carnegie Observatories), W. Krzeminski and M. Hamuy (Las
Campanas Observatory) report:
"We imaged the 7-arcmin radius error circle of GRB 041223 (GCN 2898) with
the Swope 40-inch telescope at Las Campanas Observatory starting on
December 24.185 UT (14.4 hours after the burst) in r-band for a total of
20 minutes. We find a new bright source not present in the DSS which is
located at (J2000):
RA = 06:40:47.31
DEC= -37:04:22.5
This object is located 22.5 arcsec away from the nominal position of the
X-ray counterpart detected with the XRT (GCN 2901), or about 1.5 times the
15-arcsec uncertainty radius.
Further analysis and observations are in progress"