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GCN Circular 29325

Subject
Short Fermi GRB 210119A or new SGR Swift J1851.2-6148: Possible MASTER Short OT detection
Date
2021-01-19T08:16:39Z (3 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
N.Tiurina, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, E.Gorbovskoy, P.Balanutsa,F.Balakin, 
V.Vladimirov, A.Kuznetsov,K.Zhirkov,D. Vlasenko, I.Gorbunov, D.Zimnukhov, 
V.Senik, A.Chasovnikov,A.Pozdnyakov,V.Topolev, D.Cheryasov(Lomonosov 
Moscow State  University, SAI, Physics Department),
R. Podesta, C.Lopez, F. Podesta, C.Francile (Observatorio Astronomico 
Felix Aguilar, San Huan National University),
R. Rebolo, M. Serra(The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),
D. Buckley (South African Astronomical Observatory),
O.A. Gres, N.M. Budnev (Irkutsk State University, API),
A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov (Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo 
Observatory),
A. Gabovich, V.Yurkov, Yu. Sergienko (Blagoveschensk Educational 
StateUniversity)

MASTER-OAFA robotic telescope  located in Argentina (OAFA observatory of 
San Juan National University) started inspect of the Fermi GRB 210119A 
errorbox  57 sec after notice time and 108 sec after trigger time at 
2021-01-19 02:55:58 UT (Lipunov et al., GCN #29324). MASTER autodetection 
system  found  short OT on one of unfiltered image.

    Date/Time UT             RA                Dec        Exp    mag 
2021-01-19 04:20:32 	18h 51m 11.42s  -61d 48m 06s.3 	 180s 	~17

Error is ~1" .
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