GCN Circular 3465
Subject
GRB 050525A: ROTSE-III Detection of Possible Counterpart
Date
2005-05-25T00:41:33Z (19 years ago)
From
Eli Rykoff at U of Michigan/ROTSE <erykoff@umich.edu>
E.S. Rykoff (U Mich), S.A. Yost (U Mich), H. Swan (U Mich), report on
behalf of the ROTSE collaboration:
ROTSE-IIIc, located at the H.E.S.S. site at Mt. Gamsberg, Namibia,
responded to GRB 050525A (Swift trigger 130088). The first image was at
00:08:56.7 UT, 363.5 s after the burst (8.7 s after the GCN notice
time). The unfiltered images are calibrated relative to USNO A2.0. We
detect a 14.7 magnitude, fading source at:
18:32:32.76 +26:20:22.65 (J2000)
start UT mag mlim(of image)
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00:08:56.7 14.7 15.4
This source is not visible in DSS (second epoch), 2MASS or the MPChecker
database.
Continuing observations are in progress.