GCN Circular 33796
Subject
GRB 230512A: Kitab possible afterglow candidate
Event
Date
2023-05-14T12:41:26Z (2 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
S. Belkin (IKI), A. Schmalz (KIAM), A. Pozanenko (IKI), N. Pankov (HSE), Sh. Ehgamberdiev (UBAI) report on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN:
We observed the field of Fermi LAT localization (Maheso et al., GCN 33780) of short bright GRB 230512A (Fermi GBM team, GCN 33778; detected also by AstroSat GCN 33779, and GRBAlpha GCN 33795) with Kitab RC-36 telescope. Observation in Clear filter started on May, 12 (UT) 19:17:32 and continued on May, 13 (UT) 20:49:59. We cover XRT sources ## 2,4,5,7,8,9,10,11 (Osborne et al., GCN 33789).
Within the XRT #5 error circle, we detected a possible optical source on May 12 and did not detect the source on May 13. The source is also absent in PS1 catalog. The coordinate of the source are
(J2000) 19:40:49.49 +38:28:07.4
with uncertainness of 0.5 arcsec in both coordinates. The nearest PS object is 2.5 arcses East with r'=22.14.
Preliminary photometry of the source in combined images is following
Date, UT start, t-T0, Exp., Filter, OT, Err, UL(3 sigma)
(mid, days)
2023-05-12 19:17:32 0.57624 120*60 Clear 19.43 0.25 19.7
2023-05-13 20:49:59 1.64044 120*60 Clear n/d n/d 20.0
The photometry is based on nearby USNO-B1.0 stars, R2 magnitude and not corrected for Galaxy extinction.
USNO-B1.0 stars
RA Dec R2
19:40:50.8094400 +38:29:37.881600 14.55
19:40:53.3748000 +38:29:06.702000 15.30
19:40:46.4635200 +38:06:31.770000 14.15
19:41:16.4054400 +38:09:39.092400 15.80
Taking photometry in the first epoch and an upper limit on the second epoch the index of power law decay is less than -0.5.