{
  "bibcode": "2021GCN.30538....1L",
  "body": "T. Laskar (University of Bath), S. Buchner (SARAO), S. Legodi (SARAO), K.\nD. Alexander (Northwestern), E. Ayache (Bath), E. Berger (Harvard), S.\nBhandari (CSIRO), J. Bright (Northwestern), R. Chornock (UC Berkeley), D.\nCoppejans (Northwestern), H. van Eerten (Bath), W. Fong (Northwestern), R.\nMargutti (UC Berkeley), C.G. Mundell (Bath), P. Schady (Bath), and G.\nSchroeder (Northwestern) report:\n\n\"We observed GRB 210702A (Lien et al. GCN 30351) with the MeerKAT radio\ntelescope array over two epochs beginning on 2021 July 11 12:16 UTC (8.7 d\nafter the burst) and 2021 July 23 18:16 UTC (21.0 d after the burst),\nrespectively. Preliminary analysis reveals a brightening radio counterpart\nwith 1.284 GHz flux density of 123 +/- 12 uJy at 21.0 d at position:\n\nRA (J2000) = 11:14:18.76\nDec (J2000) = -36:44:49.5\n\nwith uncertainty ~ 0.4\" in each coordinate, consistent with the X-ray\nposition (D'Elia et al., GCN 30358), optical position (Lien et al., GCN\n30351; Kuin et al., GCN 30356), and mm-band position (Laskar & Perley, GCN\n30423). Further observations are planned.\n\nThe MeerKAT telescope is operated by the South African Radio Astronomy\nObservatory, which is a facility of the National Research Foundation, an\nagency of the Department of Science and Innovation.\"",
  "circularId": 30538,
  "createdOn": 1627425649000,
  "email": "tanmoylaskar@gmail.com",
  "subject": "GRB 210702A: MeerKAT radio detection",
  "submitter": "Tanmoy Laskar at U of Bath  <tanmoylaskar@gmail.com>",
  "eventId": "GRB 210702A"
}