GCN Circular 37339
Subject
GRB 240828A: KAIT Optical Afterglow Candidate
Event
Date
2024-08-29T16:28:18Z (a year ago)
From
Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley <weikang@berkeley.edu>
Via
legacy email
WeiKang Zheng and Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley) report on
behalf of the KAIT GRB team:
The 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located at
Lick Observatory, observed the field of GRB 240828A (The Fermi
GBM team, GCN 37317; Srijan et al., GCN 37328) around the
Fermi/LAT position (Gupta & Lalla, GCN 37331) starting at 03:32,
Aug. 29 UT, about 12.61 hours after the burst. Observations were
performed in 3 x 3 tiling mode, a set of clear (roughly R) filter
images were obtained. Within the XRT afterglow (Beardmore et al.,
GCN 37337) error circle, we detected a bright uncataloged optical
afterglow candidate at J2000 position of (error ~0.5"):
RA: 15:02:02.97
Dec: +36:31:43.93
We estimate the clear band magnitude to be ~17.9 mag at 12.69 hours
after the burst. Further observations are encouraged.