GCN Circular 3266
Subject
Confirmation of OT for GRB050416
Date
2005-04-16T13:01:18Z (20 years ago)
From
Brian Schmidt at RSAA, ANU (MSSSO) <brian@mso.anu.edu.au>
Gemma Anderson, Marilena Salvo, Josh Rich and Brian P Schmidt
(Australian National University) report on behalf of a larger collaboration
"We observed a 6' region covering the BAT position of the SWIFT burst
GRB 050416
using the ANU 2.3m telescope on April 12.51 UT in R band. The object
identified by Cenko and Fox is mvisible and clearly has faded in
comparison with their image. This indicate that this object is likely
the afterglow of GRB 050416