GCN Circular 3723
Subject
GRB 050801: ROTSE-III Detection of Possible Counterpart
Event
Date
2005-08-01T18:34:58Z (20 years ago)
From
Eli Rykoff at U of Michigan/ROTSE <erykoff@umich.edu>
E.S. Rykoff (U Mich), S.A. Yost (U Mich), W. Rujopakarn (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 050801 (Swift trigger 148522). The first image was at
18:28:23.9 UT, 21.9 s after the burst (7.9 s after the GCN notice time).
The unfiltered images are calibrated relative to USNO A2.0. We detect a
new object, not visible in the DSS (second epoch), with coordinates:
13:36:35.4 -21:55:42.0 (J2000)
start UT mag mlim(of image)
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18:28:23.9 15.0 17.0
Continuing observations are in progress.