{
  "bibcode": "2022GCN.32044....1D",
  "body": "S. de Wet (UCT), P.M. Vreeswijk (Radboud) and D.B. Malesani (Radboud and\nDAWN/NBI) report on behalf of the MeerLICHT consortium:\n\nFollowing the detection of GRB 220514A by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM Team, GCN\n32038) and INTEGRAL (Mereghetti et al., GCN 32041), the 0.6m wide-field\nMeerLICHT telescope, located at Sutherland, South Africa obtained two 300 s\nexposures of a field containing the INTEGRAL position in the q-band\nbeginning 6.75 hours after the GRB trigger. Based on an existing MeerLICHT\nreference image of this field, we detect a new transient candidate within\nthe INTEGRAL error box with AB magnitude q = 19.89 +\\- 0.13 at coordinates:\n\nRA (J2000) = 09:50:39.73 (147.66556d)\nDec (J2000) = 13:09:22.61 (+13.15628d)\n\ncalibrated against Gaia DR2. This position is 33\" from the centre of the\nINTEGRAL error box, and no source is visible at the transient position in\nPan-STARRS images of the field. We suggest this may be the optical\nafterglow to GRB 220514A. Further follow-up is encouraged.\n\nMeerLICHT is built and run by a consortium consisting of Radboud\nUniversity, University of Cape Town, the South African Astronomical\nObservatory, the University of Oxford, the University of Manchester and the\nUniversity of Amsterdam.",
  "circularId": 32044,
  "createdOn": 1652564864000,
  "email": "dwtsim002@myuct.ac.za",
  "subject": "GRB 220514A: MeerLICHT optical afterglow candidate",
  "submitter": "Simon de Wet at UCT  <dwtsim002@myuct.ac.za>",
  "eventId": "GRB 220514A"
}