GCN Circular 37903
Subject
GRB 241026A: KAIT optical observations
Event
Date
2024-10-27T06:33:47Z (9 months 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, responded to GRB 241026A detected by Swift
(Melandri et al., GCN 37896) starting about 3.33 hours after
the bust under cloudy condition. Observations were performed
in the clear (roughly R) filter, and a total of 30x60s images
were obtained. We marginally detected the optical afterglow
(Moskvitin et al., GCN 37899; Watson et al., GCN 37900) in our
coadd image. We measured its brightness of 19.4 +/- 0.3 mag at
a mid time of 3.66 hours after the burst.