GCN Circular 3116
Subject
GRB 050319: Detection of Possible Optical Counterpart
Date
2005-03-19T09:54:36Z (19 years ago)
From
Eli Rykoff at U of Michigan/ROTSE <erykoff@umich.edu>
E. Rykoff (Umich), B. Schaefer (LSU), R. Quimby (UTexas) report on
behalf of the ROTSE collagoration:
ROTSE-IIIb, located at McDonald Observatory, Texas, responded to GRB
050319 (Swift 11162) in 9.2 s, 27 s after the burst. Our unfiltered
images detect a 16th magnitude, fading source at:
10:16:47.9 +43:32:54.5
Continuing observations are in progress. The object is at ~18th
magnitude, around 940 seconds after the burst.