GCN Circular 30385
Subject
GRB 210704A: TNG detection of the optical afterglow candidate
Date
2021-07-05T23:15:32Z (3 years ago)
From
Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB <pda.davanzo@gmail.com>
P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia (ASI-SSDC), A. Fiorenzano, C. Padilla (INAF-TNG) on behalf of the CIBO collaboration report:
We observed the field of GRB 210704A (Kunzweiler et al., GCN Circ. 30369; Ursi et al., GCN Circ. 30372; Berretta et al., GCN Circ. 30375;
Prasad et al., GCN 30378; Malacaria et al. GCN 30380), covering the position of the X-ray afterglow reported by D'Ai et al. (GCN Circ. 30379)
with the Italian 3.6m TNG telescope equipped with the optical camera DOLORES. A series of images were obtained with the r-sdss filter on
2021-07-05 from 21:13:11 UT to 21:39:50 UT (i.e. about 1.08 days after the burst).
The optical afterglow candidate reported by Kim et al. (GCN Circ. 30384) is clearly detected at the following position (J2000):
RA: 10:36:04.92
Dec: +57:12:59.3
(+/- 0.5").
With preliminary photometry we derive the following magnitude:
r = 22.13 +/- 0.13
(AB; calibrated against the SDSS catalogue).
As noted by Kim et al. (GCN Circ. 30384), this source is not visible in archival SDSS and Pan-STARRS images.