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GCN Circular 32791

Subject
GRB 221009A: Medicina Radio Telescope observations
Date
2022-10-18T14:16:50Z (2 years ago)
From
Marco Marongiu at Ferrara U <marco.marongiu@unife.it>
M. Marongiu, E. Egron, A. Pellizzoni (INAF/OAC), S. Righini (INAF/IRA), 
C. Guidorzi (UniFe), and S. Mulas (UniCa), report:

We observed GRB 221009A (Dichiara et al. GCN 32632) with the Medicina 
Radio Telescope (www.radiotelescopes.inaf.it) through single-dish 
imaging in X-band (central frequency 8.2 GHz, bandwidth 0.3 GHz) in two 
time intervals: (1) 13:30-19:30 UTC on October 14, 2022 (4.97-5.22 days 
after the burst), and (2) 11:30-19:30 UTC on October 17, 2022 (7.89-8.22 
days after the burst).

In our analysis, at 5.1 days (after the burst) we detected a faint radio 
emission at 8.2 GHz with a flux density of 26 +- 5 mJy at a position 
consistent with the optical position (Dichiara et al., GCN 32632) and 
the radio position (Laskar et al., GCN 32740, Laskar et al., GCN 32757).

We did not detect any significant signal with a 2-sigma upper limit of 
20 mJy at 8.1 days.


We acknowledge the scheduler and the staff of the Medicina Radio 
Telescope for approving and executing these observations.
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