GCN Circular 32740
Subject
GRB 221009A: MeerKAT detection
Date
2022-10-13T17:34:58Z (2 years ago)
From
Tanmoy Laskar at U of Bath <tanmoylaskar@gmail.com>
T. Laskar (University of Utah), K. D. Alexander (Arizona), E. Ayache
(Stockholm), E. Berger (Harvard), S. Bhandari (ASTRON/JIVE), J. Bright
(Oxford), R. Chornock (UC Berkeley), D. Coppejans (Warwick), H. van Eerten
(Bath), W. Fong (Northwestern), P. Groot (Radboud), R. Margutti (UC
Berkeley), C.G. Mundell (Bath), P. Schady (Bath), G. Schroeder
(Northwestern), and S. de Wet (Cape Town) report:
"We observed GRB 221009A (Dichiara et al. GCN 32632) with the MeerKAT radio
telescope array beginning on 2022 October 10 19:10 UTC (1.3 d after the
burst). Preliminary analysis reveals a radio counterpart with 1.284 GHz
flux density of ~ 2.1 mJy at position:
RA (J2000) = 19:13:03.47 +/- 0.04"
Dec (J2000) = 19:46:25.08 +/- 0.06"
This position is consistent with the optical position (Dichiara et al., GCN
32632; Lipunov et al., GCN 32634). Further observations are planned.
The MeerKAT telescope is operated by the South African Radio Astronomy
Observatory, which is a facility of the National Research Foundation, an
agency of the Department of Science and Innovation."