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GCN Circular 3185

Subject

GRB 050406: Magellan optical observations

Date

2005-04-07T00:36:33Z (19 years ago)

From

Edo Berger at Carnegie Obs <eberger@ociw.edu>

Edo Berger, Gus Oemler, and Mike Gladders (Carnegie Observatories) report:

"On 2005, April 6.99 UT we imaged the position of GRB 050406 (GCN 3180Not found
 
 
)
with LDSS-3 on the Magellan/Clay telescope in the r-band and i-band.  
Within the 5" radius XRT error circle (GCN 3184Not found
 
 
) we find a single faint
source (r~22 mag) close to the detection threshold of both images.  The
position of this object is (J2000):
        RA =  02:17:52.3
        DEC= -50:11:15
with an uncertainty of about 0.5" in each coordinate.  At the present we
cannot confirm whether the object has faded."